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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:43:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SysctlFS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007150241001.72038-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <396F531F.BBE0D54E@integratus.com>

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Jack Rusher wrote:

> Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > 
> > easily-scriptable simple-to-manually-change text file.  (The first
> > person to say XML gets to try to motivate the importation of a
> > BSD-licensed good XML parser into the base system.)
> 
>   Hey!  Let's try to import a good BSD license XML parser into the tree!
> 
>   Was that motivational enough?  Seriously, I'll go looking for
> something like this.  It would be awfully nice if we started to work
> towards a common parser for all configuration files, package files, etc,
> etc.  XML seems like the right answer for this.
> 
>   Does anyone know of a good starting point for this (i.e. a BSD license
> XML parser library), or is there enough interest to make it worthwhile
> to write one in a clean room?

I don't know of any, but there are a few simple Java parsers that could be
ported to C. The simplest of them is probably MiniML (look at freshmeat
appindex). The most complex and bulky is Apache Xerces-C, so I wouldn't
recommend it.. :-)

Andrzej Bialecki

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