Re: XML

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Duane Morin wrote:

> > Write a program, preferrably in C, that, say, iterates through all the
> 
> Any special reason for the C requirement?  XML's object-y nature makes
> it much better suited to a similarly object-y language, like C++, Java
> or Python.

Because C is the language for most Linux apps.  Once it's working in C,
all of us should be able to understand the concepts and use whatever
language we want.  I could live with C++ also.

> > Use any toolkit you need to -- hopefully there is a good XML parser we
> > can just plug in and start getting work done.
> 
> Anybody following www.mozilla.org?  Early on they adopted a free XML toolkit,
> which is a pretty good vote for its quality.  I want to say it was John
> Clarke's, but I might be recalling that incorrectly.

Yeah, and I guess GNOME is coming out with one also.  Perhaps a demo of
each would be nice.

I assume that data created with one toolkit can be read/modified by
others.  I just don't *quite* understand how this is possible when
everything is stored in text files, which really would be inefficient
for a large school.