From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 11:14:41
Doug Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> writes:
> On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:33 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> IIUC the major obstacle to XML support is proper unicode support.
>> Don't we need a unicode library first?
>
> I don't agree with this. We need Unicode for handling XML documents,
> yes, but there we don't need a Unicode library first and an XML library
> second: we could accept a solid XML library (which is mainly about
> navigation and manipulation of the XML tree) and drop a Unicode string
> into it later on. Stefan is even proposing to parameterize over the
> string type, so it becomes a non-issue.
Cool!
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com