[sword-devel] We need XML parser

[Chris Little]

I really appreciate when you and others give suggestions for how we can 
improve Sword and for new material & components we should consider 
adding.  Expat does look like it has some potential since it's only 
about 300k in source form.  Another issue that I forgot to mention is 
the efficiency of our filters if we add XML parsing to the mix, but 
Expat looks good if we do need and can afford XML parsing.

--Chris

David Burry wrote:
> By the way, I hadn't meant to "step in it" by chiming in on this topic, so
> please pardon me, just that XML stuff interests me...  I was just looking
> back at the history of Victor comments here and realizing I probably should
> have just kept quiet ;o)   Anyway, _if_ sword ever does start to lean more
> toward complete XML parsing in the future, you might be interested that
> Expat is about 1/50th the size of Xerxes, and does build on a lot of
> platforms though I'm still not certain it's as many as sword....  There may
> be other better ones I don't know about yet but that one is my favorite at
> the moment due to its efficiency... ;o)
> 
> Dave