[Expat-discuss] Re: Conflict with two expat shared libraries

[Karl Waclawek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake at acm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:37 PM

> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 02:02 pm, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> > I saw that flag mentioned as well. Supposedly it is not well supported.
> > Hhmm, would it not be better then to find a way to control
> > which symbols are exported from within Expat? In other words,
> > isn't there a design issue with Expat?
> 
> I vaguely recall James Clark mentioning that he expected some people to use 
> the really-really-really-low-level calls directly, especially if they didn't 
> need to do much with the XML data.

I think you are right. I believe it was the API exposed by xmltok.h.
 
> It's not at all clear to be that anyone uses these APIs, so it may be that 
> doing something with the library would be best.

Do you know how to?
I recall that the Mozilla developers have the same problem of using
both 8bit and 16bit versions of Expat in the same app.
 
> It would be interesting to know if anyone is using the low-level calls.  It 
> would be quite disturbing if they are.  ;-)  They certainly aren't 
> documented, and I dread the thought that they need to be supported.

Maybe Steinar could help? ;-)

Karl