[webkit-qt] libxslt / xml support

[siddharth.mathur at nokia.com]

Simon, 

Using libxslt and libxml2 sounds great to me, so does the libicu plan!

Regards,
Siddharth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-qt-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-qt-
> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of ext Simon Hausmann
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 5:09 AM
> To: webkit-qt at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: [webkit-qt] libxslt / xml support
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> Simon
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