[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45951] Add "xmlread" to core Octave or replace the one in io package

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #45951 (project octave):

@Philip: 
* I had tried XMLTree before noticing the comment in the wiki. It works indeed
(eventhough I couldn't have it use compiled versions of some functions).
* D. Bateman's comment doesn't help much in deciding whether the xmlread.m
function in IO is still useful for anyone.

Yes libxml and XMLTree seam to be mature XML parsers. Unfortunately if we
wanted to have a ML compatible version of xmlread we would have to reimplement
Xerces interface using e.g. classdef syntax in order to have "object.method
()" syntax ... this is clearly a waste of time considering how easy it is to
use directly Xerces and have any Matlab code work out of the box (well not
completely I admit).

If Java libraries are not welcome in core, what about IO package?

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