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

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 13603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 13603-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:07:45 -0700

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> 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 pretty messy, consisting mostly of a handful of out-of-date libraries.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?

Oh I have no idea! I don't even remember why I was trying to parse so
much XML in... early 2013. I'm closing this until someone else has a
similar itch.
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