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Re: Using XML in GDB?

From: Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: drow at false dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:39:30 -0500
Subject: Re: Using XML in GDB?
References: <20060126055744.GA29647@nevyn.them.org> <200601262036.k0QKaXJl007966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

> > And we get all sorts of things for free; for instance, UTF-8, which will be
> > handy if someone ever wants to include internationalized descriptions in the
> > target description.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a good reason why GDB should not make use of this
> > well-standardized format instead of inventing additional ad-hoc formats?
> 
> No objection to using a well-standardized format, but that probably
> only makes sense if you're not going to write your own parser.  And I
> really would like to avoid making GDB dependent on a library that
> isn't standardly available on all systems we support.

What's wrong with libxml? http://xmlsoft.org/

Bob Rossi

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