At 14:38 02/06/05 +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
Graham Klyne writes:
This code is all heavily refactored from the original HaXml for improved XML entity handling, namespace, xml:lang and xml:base support [...].
Is there any chance of reuniting the two HaXml versions into a single release?
Well, this has been discussed, and I think that Malcolm is broadly favourable in principle, but it ultimately depends upon both of us finding time and effort to do the requisite merging. I did talk about my changes with Malcolm as I applied them, so I would hope there's not too much there that is incompatible with his vision for HaXml. Meanwhile, when I have time, I hope to package my version as a Cabal package so that those who want the features I added have a reasonably easy route to using them. Until then, the best I can offer is the code on my web site.
I maintain quite a bit of code that's based on Malcolm's original HaXml version, and I'm reluctant to switch because I'm very happy with his library, but I would also like to have support for the features you've mentioned. So from my perspective, getting your changes back into the "main release" would be the best course of action.
When making changes, I did try fairly hard to maintain as much backward compatibility as I could -- adding features and interfaces rather than displacing them -- though I think there were a couple of unavoidable type signature changes. The most intractable incompatibilities may be incompatible XML handling where I have made changes to follow the official specification more closely.
We've talked about that before. Has there been any progress?
Sadly, no :-( #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact