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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:24:54 +0200
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@samba-tng.org>
To: Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
Cc: dev@apr.apache.org, new-httpd@apache.org
Subject: Re: XMLvL, apache, apr, mod_virgule origins: advice needed [LONG]
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 from Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:19:18AM +0200

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:19:18AM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:14:58AM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> > APRUTIL also locates Expat on the system for you, or builds its bundled copy
> > of Expat. You could drop your libxml2 dependency. Even better, there has
> > been a call for a SAX-like API in APRUTIL, backed by Expat, libxml, or
> > Xerces. If you're motivated, you could implement that API for APRUTIL :-)
> 
>   Actually I doubt mod_virgule would stick at the SAX level. I didn't
> looked at the code but from the exchanges I had with Raph Levien when
> he developped it, I'm pretty sure it uses the DOM tree build of libxml2.

DOM tree, libxml 1.8.x.

the version on http://virgule.sourceforge.net - xvl [a stand-alone
executable] - makes heavy usage of the SAX interface in 2.x.

i even use one of the _internal_ SAX functions, and i'm praying you
don't delete it from the library!


>   Now whether switching to Xerces makes sense or not is a question I'm
> probably too biased to answer. The irony is that I started libxml in
> 99 when trying to build a small WebDAV implementation for Apache.

funny, neh :)