ri*****@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote in message news:<c5**********@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>...
In article <8d**************************@posting.google.com >,
Kong Bhat <kb***@sta.samsung.com> wrote:
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++.
It would not be appropriate to make this part of the C standard.
There are a million things that should be standardized first:
we don't even have lists or hash tables!
-- Richard
Kindly note that I am only in favor of standardizing the API. There
could be multiple implementations that conform to that API (including
Richard's very own "newRXP" parser), in much the same way that we have
standard APIs for I/O handling, string manipulation, mathematical
functions etc. The big advantage of that would be that code written
to handle XML processing would become extremely portable.
I will put my money on the prediction that XML processing within C/C++
applications will take off in a very very big way in the next few
years, especially as the use of WebServices becomes more widespread.
That is why I strongly feel that the time is ripe to move towards
standardizing this API.
Regards,
Kong Posh