[REBOL] Re: XML document formats?
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 22-Mar-2006 15:38
bryan rasmussen wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, rebol's XML support is bad. Well, it is not bad, but apparently
nonexistant, as we can't talk about support in the sense of implementing
standard conformant parser ....
> 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.
>
I just had very brief look into it. Man, all those XML related things
look so complex :-( Some time ago, we held discussion on XML on Altme
XML channel. There was few usefull links also, we discussed if we should
go SAX or DOM way or choose some mixture. If you have a few spare
minutes to read it briefly, you can do so here, maybe you have good
experience to give us some comments/suggestions:
http://www.rebol.net/altweb/rebol3/chat323.html
beware - read from the bottom :-)
thanks a lot,
-pekr-
