I'm curious to see what Ilie is taking from this discussion. Hopefully we're not scaring people away ;)
No, not really - though I do admit the talk around here has been a little confusing. :) I haven't had time to reply yesterday, sorry. I'm not sure this kind of project would have enough complexity to actually work on for more than 2-3 weeks. Except for the actual calls to the underlying XML parser, there are little modifications to be done (API change to support multiple backends, maybe detecting them at runtime?, setting options if needed). There will be problems when the backend parser doesn't support a necessary feature (like TinyXML not supporting validation), or implementation details making it difficult to use (like MSXML requiring COM, which means CoInitialize() calls on each thread that's using it), or those with enough features have huge binary packages. A first step would be researching different 3rd party xml libraries, and make some choices. And I fear it's me who has to make those choices, because I have to write the proposal. Any hints in this direction are greatly appreciated. Regards, Ilie.