DOM4 API and GXml API

Now while fixing compilation of GXml’s implementation of DOM4, I found lot of API incompatibilities between existing generic GXml API using Gee collections and DOM4 interfaces.

In some cases when API incompatibilities comes from methods names, no problem, because just instruct Valac to override the correct interface, but properties is another beast.

Properties should be same type between interfaces if you want to implement one property with the same name in two or more interfaces.

While I see lot of advantages to use DOM4 API, because it is well documented in its specification, I’m using it when conflicts appear, modifying existing one in GXml.

Doing so and while GXml is perfectly usable in many cases, like embedded in Python code for web pages, DOM4’s API is more binding friendly than Vala’s generic one, while the last is powerful and easy to use in Vala code.

All this work will be present in upcoming GXml 0.11 version, for you to test. Next versions of 0.11.x series will be to fix DOM4 implementations by adding Unit Tests.

Author: despinosa

Linux and GNOME user, full time, since 2001. Actual maintainer of GXml and contributor to other projects mainly on GObject Introspection support.

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