From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f050033bcd02a751 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: XML Strings in Ada References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:15:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1102814129 217.209.116.179 (Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:15:29 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:15:29 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6896 Date: 2004-12-12T01:15:29+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > If any one wishes to see and use my code for noncommercial purposes, > please email me. [...] > The sources of my Ada_Utilities will be made > available under one of the new licenses that are derived or in the spirit of > my Software Developers Cooperative License. Well, my own purposes aren't commercial but my EAstrings library is GMGPL, so maybe I shouldn't look too closely at your code then. Anyway, one obvious difference is that your strings are bounded and mine are unbounded. It's not clear from your specification snippet whether the encoding is fixed at instantiation or can be changed for an individual string. My strings can be transcoded at any time. I wanted programs using EAstrings to be able to use all character encodings that are available in the operating system, so I chose an implementation where encodings are identified with names in Unix and with numbers in Windows. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu