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Pascal Obry wrote:
> And BTW, it is no fair to be upset by something that has been done. Why are
> you not upset by the fact that these components have not been ported by you
> Ada vendor for their compilers ?

Since the bulk of XML is string parsing and data representations, I'm
kind of surprised there's any portability problem at all. Isn't Ada
portable enough to manage parsing a string into a tree without having to
be ported to each compiler?

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