On Sunday 29 July 2007 08:47:50 Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2007 00:26:19 Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >> On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Lars Knoll wrote:
> >>
> >> Other organizations have requested the ability to use other XML
> >> parsers as well, such as expat. Seems like in the long run we want a
> >> different approach than just ifdefs in the XMLTokenizer.cpp file. It
> >> seems like the best would be some abstraction layer on top of the
> >> parser library, but if that is difficult then your option #2 sounds
> >> like a docent long-run approach. I would have expected just about
> >> every XML parsing library to have a SAX-like API, which shouldn't be
> >> too hard to abstract, but perhaps QXml works differently.
> >
> > I guess that assumption doesn't hold. QXmlStream is a streaming
> > parser with an
> > API that is very different from SAX. It IMO a whole lot simpler to
> > use than a
> > SAX like API and is inspired from similar APIs in the Java world. If
> > you're
> > interested, have a look at
> >
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qxmlstreamreader.html
>
> I'm told libxml has a StreamReader-style API now as well, so if that's
> the better alternative, we could design the XML code around that style
> of API (though probably not right at the moment).