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>>>>> David Megginson <david@m...>: > Steinar Bang <sb@m...> writes: >> And Objectspace Standards<ToolKit> is not compatible with the Standard >> C++ Library iostreams of MSVC++. > I think that this goes beyond the scope of SAX -- we have to be able > to assume at least a basic level of ANSI-C++ conformance, or else > we'll end up rewriting the whole standard library. I'm willing not > to beat up on the hairier features (like templates), but we have to > be able to count on the basics. Then you have to define what this basic level of ANSI-C++ conformance consists of: templates (at what level), namespaces, standard library components inside the std::namespace, the existence of the parts of the standard C++ library, and which parts. We decided to go for a basic conformance of standard C++, when we started the project I'm working on, in the summer of 1995. We have to use Standards<ToolKit> precisely because the standard C++ things we use (such as STL and basic_string<>) that are delivered with MSVC++ is broken. Our "basic conformance" consists of using STL (extensively) and string. We've stayed away from namespaces, and exotic iostream features (code_cvt<>, templated streams with wide streams). We've used templates in our own code, without much incident (the compilers are Sunpro C++, gcc/egcs and MSVC++), but we've moved away from that because they caused code bloat. A minor annoyance with the C++ mapping of CORBA IDL, is that it used an exotic and low priority (among implementers) feature like namespaces, and disregarded useful standard C++ things like vector<> (for sequence<>) and std::basic_string<>. I would hope to avoid the same reasoning for SAX. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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