From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6242 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2006 20:39:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 6233 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2006 20:38:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao02.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao02.cox.net) (68.230.240.37) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:38:57 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([68.9.66.48]) by eastrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060126203858.DBGW14821.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@localhost.localdomain>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:38:58 -0500 Received: from bob by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.52) id 1F2Dty-0003yi-DZ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:39:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:43:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Mark Kettenis Cc: drow@false.org, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Using XML in GDB? Message-ID: <20060126203930.GA11755@brasko.net> References: <20060126055744.GA29647@nevyn.them.org> <200601262036.k0QKaXJl007966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601262036.k0QKaXJl007966@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 > > 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