Re: [MacPerl] XML and MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 09.58 -0400 1998.08.05, John Mignault wrote:
>On 8/4/98 at 10:55 PM, Jeff at MacTech <online@mactech.com> shipped these
>bits:
>>
>>I don't know the answer for sure, but since XML is text-only, I would be
>>horrified if there were Unix dependencies in it, but you never know.
>>Please drop me a line (or post) if you find out for sure--I didn't know of
>>its existence before.
>
>It's not really so much the Unix dependencies as it is that XML::Parser as
>it now stands is basically a Perl front end to James Clark's expat parser,
>and AFAIK noone has yet ported expat to the Mac. There has been some
>discussion on the Perl-XML list lately about someone taking a stab at a
>"pure Perl" implementation of a parser.

Is expat a set of libraries, or an executable program?  If the former, then
porting should not be very difficult, I would think.

Not that it matters to MacPerl for awhile, anyway.

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