Re: contrib/xml.el

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Oct 06 2004, Miles Bader wrote:

> Gnus 5.10 contains a file contrib/xml.el which appears to be an old version
> of lisp/xml.el in Emacs CVS.
>
> Is there any reason why this file should be kept in Gnus?  

The files in contrib aren't strictly part of Gnus.  They are provided
for convenience.

,----[ contrib/README ]
| The files in this directory are not (yet) part of the Gnus
| distribution proper.  They may later become part of the distribution,
| or they may disappear altogether.
| 
| [...]
| 
| xml.el
| 
| 	This is used for parsing RSS feeds.  Part of Emacs 21.3 and
| 	later.
`----

> If so, is there any reason why it can't be replaced with the current
> Emacs version?

Gnus 5.10.* is supposed to work with Emacs 20.7 and up.  If the
current `xml.el' works with 20.7, it could be replaced.  But I don't
have Emacs 20.7 and I don't read RSS with Gnus, so I don't know.

Probably it's not worth the trouble to test it.  E.g. for Emacs
21.[12] `ucs-tables.el', only worked with rev=1.8 from Emacs CVS, not
with later versions.

Bye, Reiner.
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