[gdal-dev] Note on Xerces

2025-06-20 Thread Nicklas Larsson via gdal-dev
Hi, I just want to give a heads up on discussions related to Xerces, which in the future might affect (the availability) the GDAL drivers depending on named library. The maintainer of Xerces noted in November last year: "I'd strongly advise pulling or at least deprecating (don't know the of

Re: [gdal-dev] Note on Xerces

2025-06-20 Thread Even Rouault via gdal-dev
Hi Nicklas, Thanks for the head up. yes I'm aware that almost nobody maintains Xerces-C anymore.  Regarding the Interlis & NAS drivers, they could certainly be moved to using expat instead (with some effort...). The GMLAS driver cannot however. It strongly relies on unique capabilities of Xer