[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:
