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[REBOL] Re: XML document formats?

From: rasmussen:bryan::gmail at: 22-Mar-2006 12:57

Rebol's XML support is pretty bad. Gavin's implementation is not really adequate considering that most people used to working with XML are used to dealing with a stack of technologies, none of which are implemented. Aside from that I seem to recall that it did not have a good implementation for Namespaces, and I don't recall but I seriously doubt there was any focus on some of the more ersatz bits of the spec like Attribute-Value Normalization http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#AVNormalize I would suggest the following: Rebol ships with support for the libxml project http://xmlsoft.org/ also libxslt http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT.html to make things complete. It has been my experience that these libraries are maintained to be cross-platform. Rebol still should contain the old rebol parsing of xml as a fallback, that is to say when XML is not well-formed the XML can still be accessed and manipulated as Rebol blocks. This will help in the building of applications where the XML is not data critical and not well formed documents can be fixed, or in building applications that do this kind of fixing. On 3/22/06, Petr Krenzelok <petr.krenzelok-trz.cz> wrote: