Re: Build-in XML support?

[Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Ville Sundell wrote:

> Sorry guys!
> I say it wrong way, I mean:
> Other programs would like use build-in and "standard" linux XML-parser.
>

 Applications should be using whatever the libraries available to them
provide.  This does *not* belong in the kernel.

> It would make standard way to read xml-files in Linux?
> Advertise speech:
>     No more 1 000 different XML readers, only one, and people can
> make it better :D
>

 Diversity is good.  Competition between projects often benefits the end
users.  If you want to write a better XML parsing library, or to assist
one of the existing projects, please do so (after you have identified
whatever shortcomings you see in the existing choices) - but in
userspace.  And in userspace you will find that many potential users of
an xml parser are kernel-agnostic - they run on linux 2.2 or 2.4 (which
are in maintenance mode), BSDs, and others.

Ken
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