[webkit-qt] libxslt / xml support

[Konstantin Tokarev]

25.11.2011, 14:09, "Simon Hausmann" <simon.hausmann at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> While we're at the topic of third-party libraries (ICU...), there's one other
> thing that I discussed with Andreas yesterday that might make sense for us
> regarding XSLT support:
>
> I'd like to propose that we remove the code that uses QtXmlPatterns to
> implement XSLT support in WebKit. Instead I'd like to make libxslt a
> dependency (now that we have configure tests) for anyone who wants to build
> QtWebKit with XSLT support.
>
> If XSLT support is enabled - and therefore libxslt available - we also get an
> implicit availability of libxml. I suggest that in that case we also use
> libxml for XML parsing.
>
> If XSLT support is _not_ enabled, we don't have libxslt and therefore also no
> libxml available and should continue to use QXmlStreamReader for XML parsing.
>
> Does that sound reasonable?

But it will bring two extra dependencies at once - libxslt and libxml2. Does anybody
here care about embedded systems?


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Regards,
Konstantin