On 28-Nov-05 09:21:48 Arno Garrels wrote: >Hello,
>I'm actually writing a simple user manager component that I would like >to contribute to ICS. The component makes use of classes >TCollection/TCollectionItem to realize a tree-structure. A user group >contains accounts, accounts may have parameters. Will they contains passwords? >To store or send component data I use XML format. >XML-text is written without the help of a third party component however >for parsing I use Stefan Heymann's TXmlScanner/TXmlParser >http://www.destructor.de. It appears to be the freeware solution with >less overhead. Should I better avoid use of XML and/or third party >components? I think that it would be better to avoid third party components. Dependencies can force the developer to have more components installed that does the same think. So if I use two components that need an XML parser and each use a different one then I'll have two parser linked into my application. >Are there alternatives? Why don't use the streaming capabilities of components? Bye, Maurizio. -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be