On 1/29/12 1:09 PM, Dave Beckett wrote: > Expat hasn't had a release in 4+ years and I can simplify the Raptor code > and configuration if libxml2 is required; it has been the default and > recommended parser for over 5 years. libxml2 is a very widely installed > library and as far as I'm concerned, is the definitive XML library for C. I > won't be removing the SAX2 abstraction since that's working fine. > > I guess there's a small possibility somebody might want a smaller XML > subsystem to be usable but it can't be based on an unmaintained library. > There are things like lxml (python + C), Xerces-C++ (C++), etc. but > integrating them would be tricky. I'm not doing this work.
I should have also said libxml2 will be required *only if* you want to build a parser that reads an XML syntax: RDF/XML, RDFa, Atom, GRDDL, all that crappy RSS*. libxml2 won't be required if you (say) just wanted a Turtle parser. Dave _______________________________________________ redland-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.librdf.org/mailman/listinfo/redland-dev
