[Insight-developers] LIBXML2

[Bill Lorensen]

Julien,

What toolkit do the XCede folks use to parse their XML?

Bill

On Jan 21, 2008 8:25 PM, Julien Jomier <julien.jomier at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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