[vtk-developers] Add pugixml to VTK

[Dan Lipsa]

David,
This is certainly an option. There are many readers that require external
libraries.
Maybe this is the better choice. Moving pugixml would be a future step
when/if other modules start using it.

Dan


On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:19 PM David Thompson <david.thompson at kitware.com>
wrote:

> >> 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.
> >>
> >> https://pugixml.org/benchmark.html
> >>
> >> 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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