RE: A good method for xml usage/parsing
RE: A good method for xml usage/parsing
- Subject: RE: A good method for xml usage/parsing
- From: "Josh Ferguson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:57:55 -0600
- Thread-topic: A good method for xml usage/parsing
Finlay,
I digress...When I was evaluating different XML options, I was looking for support for XSL and DOM as well as the ability to parse through raw XML. In the glances I made toward CFXML* functions, it didn't appear to have support for these standards, and if it is there it's poorly documented (Apple poorly documenting something?? nooooo). A quick search also turned up this page:
http://www.tufty.co.uk/Software/objectware.html. I didn't look at anything here, but bridging CFXML to Cocoa would be very cool (why hasn't anybody wrapped a full-featured XML parser in Cocoa yet?). Anyways, I mistakenly implied that CFXML was lacking, when I should have made the distinction that it simply wasn't as full featured as other libraries (libxml) when it goes beyond raw XML parsing and creation.
For contrast, take a look at the XML classes provided in .NET (this was the "other side" that I was working with").
libxml seemed a much better match to that functionality vs. what CoreFoundation offers. I think this was more the point I was trying to stress.
Josh Ferguson
FileStorm Development
MindVision Software
www.mindvision.com/filestorm
-----Original Message-----
From: Finlay Dobbie [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:35 AM
To: Josh Ferguson
Cc: Francisco Tolmasky; Cocoa Development List
Subject: Re: A good method for xml usage/parsing
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 03:29 pm, Josh Ferguson wrote:
>
Using libxml won't be as pretty as your typical cocoa code, but once
>
you get past the initial learning curve I think you'll find that it's
>
a more robust solution than the CoreFoundation offerings.
CFXML* appear quite robust (plists are an abstraction above it, it
seems).
-- Finlay
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