Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] Suggested topic - XML processing API

["Bünzli Daniel" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>]

Le 30 janv. 08 à 01:54, Jim Miller a écrit :

> Inspired by the existing recommendation on the cocan wiki for I/O,  
> I'd like to recommend the development of a standard interface for  
> XML processing.  Currently there are many different implementations  
> of XML parsers but their interfaces are very different and don't  
> allow for easy swapping of implementations.

There are many approaches to xml parsing (partial implementations,  
leniency, well-formedness, validity, etc.), to parsing results (tree,  
custom data structure, stream, namespace support etc.) and to  
processing (mainly dependent on the parsing result). Xml processing  
cannot be seen as an abstract datatype with different implementations,  
there are different ways.

As such I'm not sure such an interface is really feasible. Now if you  
see a common pattern or concrete type signatures that could be changed  
to make parsers more compatible do not hesitate to communicate them.  
If it benefits the users of my parser and remains in its philosophy  
I'll happily implement them. But _you_ have to make concrete proposal,  
I'm not going to research this. Please do not just initiate a  
discussion because you like the abstract idea of being able to swap  
xml parser implementations, make proposals.

Best,

Daniel