From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:07:45 -0700 Message-ID: <87v9tb6vri.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87vcacd9nm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lfu7qz1s.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="117667"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 13603@debbugs.gnu.org, 13603-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 29 16:08:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrw-000UTO-6q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 16:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39536 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZru-0004Tc-P1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrn-0004TJ-RR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrm-0006sR-Qn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrm-0006sA-Nn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrm-000478-Gu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:08:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eric Abrahamsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:08:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13603 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 13603-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13603.156976607615803 (code B ref 13603); Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:08:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13603) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Sep 2019 14:07:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55336 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZrg-00046j-Au for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:51956 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iEZre-00046P-9n; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (c-73-254-86-141.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.254.86.141]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF56AFA07F; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:07:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87lfu7qz1s.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:36:31 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167678 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Not a bug, but a feature request. XML parsing in Emacs is currently >> pretty messy, consisting mostly of a handful of out-of-date libraries. >> There is talk of elisp implementations of Xpath and XSLT. For Emacsen >> compiled with libxml2, that seems like a bad idea: the system libraries >> are there, they just need to be exposed to emacs. My request is to make >> more of libxml2 available to elisp, starting with Xpath. > > What parts of Xpath were you thinking of here? Oh I have no idea! I don't even remember why I was trying to parse so much XML in... early 2013. I'm closing this until someone else has a similar itch.