[Insight-developers] LIBXML2

[Julien Jomier]

Bill,

AFAIK, they are using some Java tools. Steve probably knows more about this.

Julien

Bill Lorensen wrote:
> Julien,
>  
> What toolkit do the XCede folks use to parse their XML?
>  
> Bill
> 
> On Jan 21, 2008 8:25 PM, Julien Jomier <julien.jomier at kitware.com 
> <mailto:julien.jomier at kitware.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Bill, Stephen and others,
> 
>     Independently of Stephen's work, for what we are doing with the
>     integration XCede data provenance and ITK we will need libxml2 at some
>     point. We started to work on XCede with Expat with mixed success and
>     found out that libxml2 does the job very well. All our current
>     development is based on libxml2.
> 
>     I understand your concern, however libxml2 has been compiling on VTK's
>     dashboard for a long time and ITK and VTK are sharing a lot of the
>     compilers/OS, so I don't see that has a major issue (unless I'm missing
>     something).
> 
>     I agree that libxml2 is a big library and we should investigate if it's
>     worth the integration into ITK. If other developers can raise their
>     opinion on the subject that would be great, also we might want to send
>     an email to the users list to get some feedbacks...
> 
>     my two cents,
> 
>     Julien
> 
>     Bill Lorensen wrote:
>      > Stephen,
>      >
>      > I just checked the LOC-load of the two libraries:
>      > expat - ~11,000 LOC
>      > xml2 - ~210,000 LOC
>      >
>      > Is the xml2 LOC-load worth it in itk and slicer?
>      >
>      > Bill
>      >
>      >
>      >
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