From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:16:51 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5x7ty2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285208231 1948 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2010 02:17:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:17:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 23 04:17:10 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 1OybN0-0008Nn-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:17:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OybMz-0007pc-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50414 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OybMt-0007pN-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:17:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OybMp-0000Dq-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OybMp-0000Dk-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OybMo-0008Lu-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:16:58 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-166-3-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.166.3.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:16:58 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-166-3-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:16:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-166-3-76.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <87vd5x7ty2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130649 Archived-At: On 9/22/10 8:07 AM, Chong Yidong wrote: > 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. But having 2 xml parsers that provide radically different outputs would be good for the fans of each format. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA