[Gambas-devel] XML component

[Benoit Minisini]

On Friday 10 September 2004 16:41, Daniel Campos wrote:
> El vie, 10-09-2004 a las 10:00 +0200, Benoit Minisini escribió:
> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 21:03, Alberto Torres wrote:
> > > Hi, I wonder if anyone is working on a xml component for gambas. I read
> > > the wiki and it seems that Daniel Campos is working on it.
> > >
> > > I think XML component should be small and stand-alone, a good choice
> > > could be use tinyxml because it's small (146kb source without docs) and
> > > has no external depencies.
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml
>
> Mmmh... Tinyxml is a good choice for tiny systems, but...
>
> "It doesnt parse or use DTDs (Document Type Definitions) or XSLs
> (eXtensible Stylesheet Language.) It is only tested on Latin-1
> characters (which is the Western European character set). Although
> people have reported success in passing through Latin-1 and UTF-8 data.
> There are other parsers out there (check out www.sourceforge.org, search
> for XML) that are much more fully featured. But they are also much
> bigger, take longer to set up in your project, have a higher learning
> curve, and often have a more restrictive license. If you are working
> with browsers or have more complete XML needs, TinyXml is not the parser
> for you."
>
> The lack of DTD and multiencoding support is specially severe for a lot
> of web/database applications...
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Campos
>

Yes. Gambas uses UTF-8 (or tries to use it as much as possible), and so a 
parser that can't deal with it is a problem.

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Benoit Minisini
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