[webkit-dev] What libxml2 features are needed for WebKit?

Alexey Proskuryakov ap at webkit.org
Wed Mar 26 00:32:52 PDT 2008


On Mar 26, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Leonid Romanov wrote:
> Yep, you are right about libxslt: XPath is indeed required. I do  
> wonder,
> however, what all XPathBlahBlahBlah files in WebCore/xml are for?  
> Well,
> its not like I really need to know the answer to this particular
> question, just want to get better understanding of WebKit  
> architecture.


   These are used by XPathEvaluator. It is not practical to use  
libxslt for it for performance reasons.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov




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