GNU bug report logs - #13603
24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 02:59:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.2

Done: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 13603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 13603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:46:26 -0500

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:56:29 +0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: 

EA> Not a bug, but a feature request. XML parsing in Emacs is currently
EA> pretty messy, consisting mostly of a handful of out-of-date libraries.
EA> There is talk of elisp implementations of Xpath and XSLT. For Emacsen
EA> compiled with libxml2, that seems like a bad idea: the system libraries
EA> are there, they just need to be exposed to emacs. My request is to make
EA> more of libxml2 available to elisp, starting with Xpath.

Consider me in favor (and also hoping for a C-level JSON parser).

Ted
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