Hi Peter, I was just wondering if you know about Arabica
http://www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/arabica It does not implement its own xml parser but rather wraps around some
xml parser implementation, like Xerces, libxml, MSxml, etc.
No, I haven't heard about this wrapper before, but I did hear of the other parsers. My only problem with them is that I don't really like including too many separate libraries into a project. That's why I turned to the boost collection (being in the TR1). I don't mind using multiple libs from here, but I definitely don't like mixing libs from multiple sources. They become hard to keep up to date. (Plus I've seen that the TR2 proposals contained both Unicode and XML support (although too late for that now)). That's the reason I was thinking about somehow putting together these 2 libs. Are you aware of the work that went into boost XML 'bindings' in the past ?
I submitted an XML library supporting a DOM API, as well as some xmlreader. (The implementation was based on libxml2, as I believe it would be foolish to attempt to reinvent that particular wheel.)
No, actually being quite a new member, I don't know about previous attempts (didn't really find anything neither of the site nor the mailing lists) It would be great to get some momentum to review all past and present ideas
and build something on top of that. I may be able to help, if you are interested.
Where could I find these ideas/implementations that you mentioned? Peter