From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 14 17:45:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9182B37B9CD for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 2C5F32DC0A; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:50:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B52307817; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:43:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B047610E17; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:43:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:43:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Jack Rusher Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysctlFS In-Reply-To: <396F531F.BBE0D54E@integratus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message