[vlc-devel] XML parsing

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:34:24PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> I complained many times about the hand-coded broken XML parsing in the ASX 
> demux. But unfortunately, most of the other XML parsers are quite broken as 
> well.
Unfortunately, this isn't news.

> I tried to fix a few memory leaks and simplify the API a little. However, with 
> about a thousand lines of reworked code, the probability that I introduced 
> regressions is approximately 100%. I simply could not test anything for lack 
> of samples.
Thanks for the work :D
And don't de-evaluate your work...

Do you have ideas what needs to be tested ? Heavy skins? Heavy xpsf ?

> Basically, most if not all of the parser are horribly broken in some way. In 
Do you have a common list of good-behaviours to check?
What parser was the less bad, so we can take it as example?

> spent already 3 or 4 days reworking this, and the rework is not even finished.
Thanks a lot for doing something this boring...

Best Regards,

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