why does 0.9.8 use both expat and libxml2?

[jw...@ilstechnology.com]

Guys and gals.

I've been testing the latest 0.9.8 build on linux, and I noticed that it is
using both the expat and the libxml libraries, as well as the libz
libraries.  What parts of these libraries are being used?  Is this just
overhead from the APR merge?

I don't see any references to libz in the binary, but I do see references
to the rest of the libraries.

Thanks,

James Wert Jr.

JWert@ILSTechnology.com

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Re: why does 0.9.8 use both expat and libxml2?

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

On Mar 18, 2005, at 8:42 AM, jwert@ilstechnology.com wrote:

> Guys and gals.
>
> I've been testing the latest 0.9.8 build on linux, and I noticed  
> that it is
> using both the expat and the libxml libraries, as well as the libz
> libraries.  What parts of these libraries are being used?  Is this  
> just
> overhead from the APR merge?
>
> I don't see any references to libz in the binary, but I do see  
> references
> to the rest of the libraries.
>

libxml2 and MSXML are used by the current implementation of  
DOMConfigurator.  expat is used by APR-util, but not currently by  
log4cxx.  The goal is to port log4j's JoranConfigurator which  
replaces DOMConfigurator and to have it use expat through apr-util  
and drop the current DOMConfigurator and its dependencies on libxml2  
and MSXML.  This issue was logged as LOGCXX-35 (http:// 
issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-35)