[Insight-developers] LIBXML2

[Julien Jomier]

Bill, Stephen and others,

Independently of Stephen's work, for what we are doing with the 
integration XCede data provenance and ITK we will need libxml2 at some 
point. We started to work on XCede with Expat with mixed success and 
found out that libxml2 does the job very well. All our current 
development is based on libxml2.

I understand your concern, however libxml2 has been compiling on VTK's 
dashboard for a long time and ITK and VTK are sharing a lot of the 
compilers/OS, so I don't see that has a major issue (unless I'm missing 
something).

I agree that libxml2 is a big library and we should investigate if it's 
worth the integration into ITK. If other developers can raise their 
opinion on the subject that would be great, also we might want to send 
an email to the users list to get some feedbacks...

my two cents,

Julien

Bill Lorensen wrote:
> Stephen,
> 
> I just checked the LOC-load of the two libraries:
> expat - ~11,000 LOC
> xml2 - ~210,000 LOC
> 
> Is the xml2 LOC-load worth it in itk and slicer?
> 
> Bill
> 
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