[redland-dev] Removing support for expat in Raptor 2.0.7+ - requiring libxml2

[Dave Beckett]

On 1/29/12 1:09 PM, Dave Beckett wrote:
> Expat hasn't had a release in 4+ years and I can simplify the Raptor code
> and configuration if libxml2 is required; it has been the default and
> recommended parser for over 5 years.   libxml2 is a very widely installed
> library and as far as I'm concerned, is the definitive XML library for C.  I
> won't be removing the SAX2 abstraction since that's working fine.
> 
> I guess there's a small possibility somebody might want a smaller XML
> subsystem to be usable but it can't be based on an unmaintained library.
> There are things like lxml (python + C), Xerces-C++ (C++), etc. but
> integrating them would be tricky.  I'm not doing this work.

I should have also said libxml2 will be required *only if* you want to
build a parser that reads an XML syntax:
  RDF/XML, RDFa, Atom, GRDDL, all that crappy RSS*.

libxml2 won't be required if you (say) just wanted a Turtle parser.

Dave