Re: GSXML

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 08:44 AM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It was the first time I was using GSXML and I have few comments about 
> it,
> mostly about method naming. In GSXMLNode there is a method named 
> -children. I
> was expecting (by the method's name) to return an array of node's 
> children, bt
> it returns first child of the node.
>
> Also some method names are abbreviated (prev, doc, setProp:). Well, it
> requires less typing, but it is inconsistent with other GNUstep/Cocoa 
> method
> names (previous, document, setProperty: or setPropertyValue:).

Reports of all such inconsistencies welcome ... the classes were 
originally written
by someone unfamiliar with OpenStep, and while Nicola and I have put 
some effort
into making them more consistent, the job is not complete.

> In NSSet, for example, we have setWithArray:, setWithObject: and 
> setWithSet:.
> In GSXMLNode we have nodeFrom:. I think, it should be nodeFromData: 
> (then we
> can have nodeFromString: and similar).
>
> There are just rather cosmetic things, but I think, appropriate and 
> consistent
> method naming makes writing code easier.
>
> One question: is there an Objective-C XML library that is available for 
> both
> GNUstep and MacOS-X? Maybe some wrapper around libxml (like GSXML) and 
> core
> foundation with unified interface, so it is not needed to write the 
> same code
> twice.

GSXML can be used on MacOS-X ... It has been separated out as a 
subproject so it can
be built independently from the base library.  I know it needs some 
porting work by
MacOS-X users to make it build 'out-of-the-box' (eg. 'make 
additions=standalone' to
do that), but this is just awaiting some MacOS-X users to supply any 
patches needed.