[vtk-developers] Add pugixml to VTK
David Thompson
david.thompson at kitware.com
Fri Jun 15 13:19:11 EDT 2018
>> I am working on a CityGML reader for VTK. For this I need a fast XML parser. pugixml is already used by ParaView and seems to be much faster than available choices already present in VTK: libxml2 and expat. pugixml has also a very clean API.
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>> https://pugixml.org/benchmark.html
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>> Are there any comments or concerns about moving pugixml from ParaView to VTK?
I thought Ben Boeckel was working on a removing as many things from ThirdParty as possible (and making them parts of a superbuild). So perhaps the CityGML reader should live in a VTK module that requires an external pugi? I know pugi is small, but...
David
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