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>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 13603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:36:31 +0200

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

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 pretty messy, consisting mostly of a handful of out-of-date libraries.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

What parts of Xpath were you thinking of here?

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