Re: NSXMLParser question
Re: NSXMLParser question
- Subject: Re: NSXMLParser question
- From: René Puls <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:23:16 +0100
Am 11.11.2003 um 03:11 schrieb Michael Terry:
On Nov 10, 2003, at 7:02 AM, Reni Puls wrote:
I wonder why Apple didn't just use libxml2 as the underlying parser,
since it is already included in Panther...
Isn't that what they did?
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
SystemOverview/SystemTechnologies/chapter_2_section_4.html#//
apple_ref/doc/uid/20000979/TPXREF134>
That's very interesting--thanks for pointing this out!
I always thought (feared would be the better word) that NSXMLParser was
just a wrapper for the CoreFoundation CFXMLParser. Apple writing their
own meager XML parser when there are full-featured open-source
alternatives available seemed like an unnecessary waste of time.
But if Apple is really using libxml2, I do not understand the problem
with namespaces. I am pretty sure that libxml2 must support namespaces,
even the rather old version that comes with Panther (2.5.4, which was
released on February 24th, as opposed to the current 2.6.2). After all,
the corresponding XSLT library (libxslt) depends on this support, and
it has been available for quite some time.
Kind regards,
Rene Puls
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