Time to standardize the XML library for C/C++ - Page 4

Kong Bhat

With XML becoming the de facto data description standard, I am
extremely surprised that there is no movement towards standardizing an
xml library API for use with C and C++. Personally I have been
working with libxml2 (www.gnome.org) for a while now, and I am quite
comfortable with it. I believe that libxml2 is a good start, but I
think a slimmer version of libxml2 should be standardized.
Any thoughts?

Regards,
Kong Posh

Jul 22 '05

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Steven T. Hatton

Dietmar Kuehl wrote:

Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Do you know how to translate the w3c DOM IDL Definitions into C++ header
files?
Actually, I don't think that W3C specifies language bindings for their
IDL stuff. I'm also not sure whether they refer to OMG's IDL and its
binding although I seem to recall that they state that this binding is
an option but not required.

I'm pretty sure they are testing conformance against their Java and
ECMAScript (JavaScript) binding specifications. These are almost identical
to the IDL abstract binding.

http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test/
Personally, I would use a rather different
interpretation of the DOM standard than the implementations eg. in
Xerces. It is a while since I looked more closely into this stuff.
This is a list of 3rd party recommendations for DOM bindings. Apache's
Xerces is the only one addressing all three levels. I believe it's a
question of how closely the implementations come to resembling the IDL.
The ECMAScript and Java bindings use slightly different naming conventions,
but they are mappable to the IDL.

http://www.w3.org/DOM/Bindings
I haven't
seen another person by that name in the C++ community.

That must mean you are also this person:

http://www.josuttis.com/libbook/index.html

"First, I d like to thank Dietmar K¨uhl. Dietmar is an expert on C++,
especially on input/output streams and internationaliz ation (he implemented
an I/O stream library just for fun). He not only translated major parts of
this book from German to English, he also wrote sections of this book using
his expertise. In addition, he provided me with invaluable feedback over
the years."

I'm impressed. :-)

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