Remove libxml2 as a dependency

rug-compling / alpinocorpus

Library for handling Alpino corpora

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Closed danieldk closed 13 years ago

danieldk commented 13 years ago

We are now using libxml2 as a dependency, as well as Xerces-C and XQilla via dbxml. This has some disadvantages:

Unnecessary dependencies.
We could provide XQuery/XPath 2.0 support for compact and directory-based corpora via XQilla.
Some queries do not validate in the Dact user interface, but are valid in XQilla.

The nolibxml branch attempts to eliminate the use of libxml2.

danieldk commented 13 years ago

In nolibxml FilterIter uses XQilla/Xerces-C. But I can't say I am too happy - performance is much worse than libxml2 and I dislike the API.

danieldk commented 13 years ago

Not doing this for the reason listed above.