[sword-devel] We need XML parser

[David Burry]

If you restrict the order, it's not XML, please don't call it XML if it's 
not really, it will just confuse people.  If you want to use XML I suggest 
using an existing XML parsing library rather than re-inventing the wheel.

Dave

At 10:22 AM 6/6/2002 +0600, Victor Porton wrote:
>Well, you haven't answered the question, whether it is a need for Sword to
>consider equivalent XML equivalently or it can use only a subset of XML (e.g.
>with restricted attrs order).
>
> > The order of attributes is not significant in XML, so your examples should
> > be equivalent.  Regardless things shouldn't ever crash even if it did get
> > unacceptable data, it should display or log or return an error message and
> > go on or quit, which ever makes sense for the situation.  If you want to
> > parse XML, best is to use an XML parser library... such as expat or xerxes
> > or some other one.
> >
> > At 05:05 AM 6/6/2002 +0600, Victor Porton wrote:
> > >Somebody said that XML format of modules is preferable.
> > >
> > >First a question arises: does this imply that two equivalent XML fragments
> > >(e.g <a x="1" y="2"/> and <a y="2" x="1"/> are equivalent XML despite 
> these
> > >have different text representation) should be parsed by Sword
> > >equivalently? Is
> > >variant when <a x="1" y="2"/> parses well, but on <a y="2" x="1"/> Sword
> > >crashes acceptable (with obligation to use in modules only the first
> > >arguments
> > >order)?
> > >--
> > >Victor Porton (porton@narod.ru)
> >
> >
>
>--
>Victor Porton (porton@narod.ru)