Re: [Caml-list] OASIS circular dependency in xml-light

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

Well, it has seen some development in the past couple years on github.

Anyway, back to the original problem.

xml.ml references Dtd
dtd.ml references Xml (through 'open Xml', which is needed)

xml.mli does not reference Dtd
dtd.mli references Xml

Currently xml.mli is compiled, then dtd.mli, then dtd.ml and finally
xml.ml (there are other modules involved but they don't seem to be
involved in the loop). I'm not completely surprised this works but I
didn't know it was possible (my current version here is 4.01.0 but it
has probably been that way for a long time). Maybe someone else can
comment on that.

I'm actually wondering how this works wrt module initialization order.

I think the sure way would be to move at least some declarations to a
separate module that has no dependency on others and which both Xml and
Dtd could depend on.

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Adrien Nader