Jose wrote:
On 11/8/05, Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> wrote:
Why would we use a back end? Why bother making a Boost XML library if we're just going to make a wrapper that punts to a XML-specific open-source library? If we're not going to just mirror the back end, then we going to have to configure translations between our C++ front end and the back end, which could include allocations.
I haven't seen an answer to your questions, but I should pose the same ones.
I'm not sure I understand the questions, or the assumptions they are based on. Have you bothered looking at the code ? Have you noted what 'translation' actually means there, i.e. that there is *nothing* but smart pointers being allocated there ? As to the 'why bother', well, the proposal is about an API, i.e. interface, which may or may not be implemented by a separate backend. If you are not happy with a libxml2 backend, well, good luck implementing it yourself ! Regards, Stefan