Re: Barrage of questions from newbie

[Murray Cumming <Mu...@BetaResearch.de>]

"J. J. Merelo" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         Just compiled my first xerces-c++ program, and so far, so good, but I
> found some things I didn't like. The first thing is that it's very
> un-STL-like, that is, STL is barely used (for instance, DOMString is
> used instead of the STL string, which already takes into account locale
> and all the stuff), 

std::string can't do Unicode/UTF8/etc.

and the second, it's very un-PERL-like; coming from
> PERL, where there's a wonderful XML::Simple module that converts a whole
> XML doc into a tree; there does not seem to be such a thing in
> xerces-c++, although using STL data structures (maps, for instance), it
> could be, more or less easily, done (OK, OK, I could do it myself...
> but, wellll...)
> 
>         There does not seem to be any other alternatives to xerces-c++, right?
> There are several libraries in C (like libxml from the GNOME project),
> but none of them in C++ .For instance, I have been looking for the Mino
> library, but it seems to have all but dissapeared.
> 
>         Just a few toughts, feel free to comment on. In any case, I'll keep
> using xerces-c++, I guess..
> 
> J
> 
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