Re: [PD-dev] XML again

hi georg, frank,

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Now I'm unsure if I should implement the parser myself or if I should use a XML parser (e.g. Xerces from apache) ?

I think, the parsing of the container xml files migth be easy enough, to not depend on external libraries. However there are some engines you could include directly into the externals.

why invent the wheel again and again if there are platform independent open source libraries out there? writing parsers - for even small languages - is far from easy and nearly always turns out to get very hairy once things should get extensible. if you want to do it from scratch you should imho at least use standard tools like yacc/lex and the like.

lg martin