From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs and libxml2 (for emacs w3) Date: 24 Sep 2003 20:35:32 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ad8uughn.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <87oexex7iv.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87y8wfwys0.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <3F717C86.7030600@jclark.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064432492 10158 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 19:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 21:41:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2FVy-0003m1-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:41:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2Fcp-0006E3-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2FUR-0007Lg-A0 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A2FQU-0005xx-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A2FQM-0005vq-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.34.135.17] (helo=tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2FQL-0005uk-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from host217-34-135-22.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.34.135.22] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by tf1.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2FQM-0002I5-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:35:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk ident=nferrier) by kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2FQD-0001j2-00; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:35:33 +0100 Original-To: James Clark In-Reply-To: <3F717C86.7030600@jclark.com> Original-Lines: 20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16610 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16610 James Clark writes: > For the last few months, I've been working on new XML support for > Emacs. I've seen it (via Tim Bray's weblog http://www.tbray.org/ongoing) and I was very impressed. > It's still early days, but I think this is technically a better > direction that linking to a general-purpose XML library like > libxml2. The attraction (to me) of libxml2 is that I use it elsewhere. I know what it does. When I'm developing xml based tools within emacs, using a parser and xpath evaluator that I will use in production has value for me. Nic