[vtk-developers] Add pugixml to VTK

[David E DeMarle]

>
>  I was thinking more if there should be a push towards one single lib, ...


I for one would really like us to get down to just one xml parser in VTK.
The more the less merrier in terms of maintenance effort and project
complexity eh?

David E DeMarle
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:36 PM Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
wrote:

> 2018-06-16 8:37 GMT+02:00 Chiranjib Sur <sur.chiranjib at gmail.com>:
>
>> My few cents... The disadvantage with pugixml is that it's a
>> non-validating parser. If I want to make full use of XML schema for any
>> custom developed plugin, it's a very poor choice then.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
> Also worth noting that it's a DOM-like parser only AFAIK, so if you want
> to do streaming parsing in a push paradigm à la SAX or a pull paradigm à la
> libxml2's reader interface, you'd need to turn to another library. Note
> that may not be a problem if VTK already has libxml2 as a dep, since then
> you could use that. I was thinking more if there should be a push towards
> one single lib, then it might make sense to pick one that has both DOM and
> streaming interfaces (don't know if that's a goal/consideration though).
>
> Elvis
>
>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Chiranjib
>>
>> ------
>> Using hand held device. Sorry for the typo, if any.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 11:59 PM Utkarsh Ayachit <
>> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > 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...
>>>
>>> I am not sure that's correct. He was doing that for Python 3rd party
>>> modules. Are you referring to that?
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