On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Is the plan to feed the dtd to the parser, so that it parses only lyx docs > and not some other well formed but otherwise arbitrary file? > > I was thinking about the best way to proceed on the way home last night. Do > we really need to write our own xml parser when there are many *good* and > *proven* ones out there already. Parsing the thing isn't / shouldn't be a > problem. Turning that into a LyX data structure in memory is the problem.
Using an off the shelf parser actually handles all sorts of freaky things we shouldn't worry it. It's IMHO a requirement that we use one... > Given that expat already has the machinery we need, so that all you need do > is register handler functions with the parser, I'd start off with that. Or we could use libxml2 which seems to be everywhere? john
