XML within Apache (was Re: [Fwd: [dav-announce] Release: mod_dav 0.9.6-1.3.4]) (fwd)

Heads up Stig. Talk about potentially including either expat or libxml in a future version of Apache over on the Apache list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:19:40 -0800 From: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: [PHP-DEV] XML within Apache (was Re: [Fwd: [dav-announce] Release: mod_dav 0.9.6-1.3.4]) Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > [snip] > > Maybe Daniel Veillard's libxml (gnome-xml) would do. It is licensed > > under LGPL and W3C's license (whatever it is called, seems to be > > BSDish). It appears to only be licensed under the W3C "IPR" license. The IPR is much better than LPGL (for Apache's sake). > > gnome-xml is in GNOME CVS and libxml CVS snapshots are available at > > ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/XML > > > > Currently used in several GNOME applications. > > Note that I don't claim it have the robustness of expat nor the > wide recognition of the author :-) > > But it should be able to parse DAV without problem, I originally wrote > it *precisely* to check the DAV example in version 5 or 6 of the draft. hehe. cool. It would be preferable to have a SAX interface from the parser, because mod_dav uses its own tree structure. Without that, some serious munging would need to occur to get mod_dav to work with gnome-xml. On the other hand, other modules may prefer to receive a DOM-like structure from the parser (it can certainly simplify a lot of things). Those modules could use gnome-dom on top of gnome-xml? btw, I saw a reference to gnome-xml in the current Linux Journal issue, in the article about GNOME. Kind of funny because it was just last night that I read it, and I had intended to look up gnome-xml for just this reason (as a potential expat alternative). Cheers, -g p.s. I stripped Expat down to 19 files and no subdirectories, which builds libexpat.a. Now to incorporate the thing into the Apache build process... -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net