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From: "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net>
Subject: Re: XML and Ada was RE: A standard package for config files is needed
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In <wk4rgbgvrg.fsf@acm.org>, Stephen Leake wrote:

>> (I imagine a GLIB2 binding would bring in libxml2...). Seems it'd be
>> useful to have an independent binding for libxml2 so you don't have
>> to bring glib into the picture if you don't need/want it and also
>> get full access to all the functionality (I think GLIB just
>> implements/uses a small subset).
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. Are you volunteering ? :).

If I was a more competent Ada programmer, I might.  The SAX interface
looks a little dodgy to me.  It's also a pretty large API...