Re: XML for Win32

[Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>]

David Botton wrote:
> 
> Don't know, never pressed it. I am sure there is data around the net on it.
> It is certainly a heavily used component. I believe the latest is version 3
> of the control.
> 

Speaking of versions, are these controls upward/backward compatible, ie 
is there any kind of checking that should be done at run-time to make 
sure that the installed version on the target machine will work with 
the calls from gnatcom? (Of course, I'm thinking about shipping exe's 
to unsophisticated users)  This all works so slick and easy that it
makes
me nervous.

Found some performance info on this page, which gives pretty 
interesting times:  

http://www.geocities.com/fastxml/inside.html

Even though it is illustrating the advantages of a 3rd party library,
all the times are in milliseconds for multi-megabyte files, so that 
looks pretty good to me.

Are there any requirements on the user (run-time) machine for the
gnatcom XML components to work?  Is that requiring IE 4 or IE 5?
Any versions of Windows that won't work? I assume that the early 
release of Win95 won't work unless a later version of IE is installed.
Is that right?   Anything else that needs to be done to setup the
typical user machine, or can I just copy in an exe and it all will 
work?


Al