Re: [Classpathx-xml] adding wrappers to libxml

[Nic Ferrier]

Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Nic, 
>  
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:49, address@hidden wrote: 
> > The GNOME project has defined a libxml (with an xslt component) which 
> > seems reliable and useful. 
> >  
> > Does anybody else think it would be a good idea to add wrappers to 
> > libxml to Classpathx/JAXP? One could choose whether to use native java 
> > or the wrapped code at configure time (or perhaps build both). 
> >  
> > It would be a good way of getting XSLT without having to write an XSLT 
> > engine. 
>  
> That would be very interesting to have. For example in gjdoc we are 
> currently creating a XML representation of the javadoc and transforming 
> that later in a shell script with the xsltproc program to HTML. 
> (xsltproc is based on libxml.) If there would be java wrappers for 
> libxml then we could use that for the transforming. 

Yes... I was thinking about using the libxsl library to write a
transformer implementation.


  
> Are you thinking about JNI and/or CNI wrappers? 

Both. Probably CNI first.


Nic