Re: [help-gengetopt]xml?

[Arturo Tena]

Hi!

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> Hi Scott
>       I really love the options your talking about (and I had already thought
> about adding some of them).
>       The idea of XML is very good as long as the syntax stays quite simple
> for the user (programmer).
>       The main problem I see (as you said) is the xml parser: actually being
> gengetopt a GNU program we should really use a GPL parser if there's any
> of them for C around. Do you know any? Moreover either it should be
> shipped with the sources or it should be found very easily on the
> internet, otherwise gengetopt wouldn't be compiled easily.

May be you want to try libxml (aka gnome-xml), which is the XML parser used by
a GNU project: the GNOME project:

http://www.xmlsoft.org/

libxml is LGPL'ed. I don't know how portable is, it shouldn't be a problem,
tough.


> 
> what do you think?
> 
> thanks for your help
> 
>       Lorenzo
> 
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