Re: [MacPerl] XML and MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.08 -0400 1998.08.07, John Mignault wrote:
>On 8/7/98 at 7:36 AM, Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> shipped these bits:
>
>>At 03.06 -0400 1998.08.07, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
>>>Just for clarification: SP _is_ in C++, but expat is in C and is what is
>>>being used for Perl's SGML modules. It's also being used to add XML
>>>support to Navigator 5, so there must be some form of a Mac version
>>>available. The Mozilla sources might have something useful; I'll take a
>>>look when I can find the time to unstuff the beast.
>>
>>Oh, good eye.  I have actually built expat, it appears, several times.  :-)
>
>I must be heavily medicated.
>
>As far as I can tell, expat is specifically an *XML* parser, not a full
>SGML parser, unless David Megginson is now subsetting an XML version. I
>haven't really looked at the SGML modules, so I guess I don't know what
>gets used for them.
>
>If you've already got a built expat for Mac, Chris, can you perhaps send
>me the lib(s) if possible and I'll try building a Mac version of
>XML::Parser? I made the changes to Parser.xs yesterday to build under
>5.005_01 with expat on Linux (yay) and Win32 (boo, dumbass Microsoft
>makefiles) and it's working OK so far. Would save me reinventing the
>wheel, though looking over the expat sources it doesn't appear that it'd
>be too difficult to build it.

I did build it (I suppose, if it is part of Mozilla), but I trashed it.  I
might try building Mozilla again tonight.  I'll put the entire XML
directory in a .sit available for FTP after I build it.

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