Subject: Re: gnome-xml and policy
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 01:26:21 CDT
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Goran Thyni wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 09:30:09AM +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > Just one more point. Will any XML_Char code I generate be usable with both
> > expat and gnome-xml? Are there any gotcha's with using gnome-xml rather
> > than expat? I don't want a bunch of ifdefs around lots of code to choose
> > gnome-xml over expat.
>
> -----
> Problem 1:
>
> the type is called xmlChar in gnome-xml
> this is enabled if HAVE_GNOME_XML2 is defined
>
> #define XML_Char xmlChar
>
> no problem
>
> -----
> Problem 2:
>
> xmlChar is unsigned char
> XML_Char is signed char
>
> in certain cases we need casts to keep g++ happy
>
> no problem for abiword/expat hackers
> small problem for abiword/libxml hackers
> -----
>
> anyway this gives an reason to look at how we
> use types XML_Char and regular char. In some places
> the choices seems strange.
>
This all sounds fine. If someone with libxml-2.0 can check that the patch
works as advertised I vote it should go in too.
Cheers
Martin
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