From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:33 -0400 Message-ID: <87vd5x7ty2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285164467 8662 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 14:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:07:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 16:07:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyPz6-0006gD-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyPz6-0001F5-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyPz0-0001Eq-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyPyw-0003Gt-SN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.121]:37299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyPyw-0003Gm-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-103-105-16.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.103.105.16]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po26.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o8ME7YIh021675 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BD0A16D402; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:07:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:14:15 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130622 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Leo writes: > >> Yeah I like that too. After seeing two of its outputs, I quickly noticed >> the pattern and just create some short two-liners to access the tree. > > Nice. :-) > > Perhaps Stefan's idea of just naming the functions `libxml-parse-*' was > the best to avoid the compatibility discussion. Having two xml parsers that provide slightly different outputs, even though they do the exact same thing, is a problem regardless of what their names are.