[fpc-pascal] OOP and XML usage

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote:

> i mean that FPC-XML tries to be too general and this leads to too
> cumbersome code in various situations (FPC-XML is clearly overkill for
> my needs).
>


But FPC-XML is not meant for storing objects. It is meant to
read any correctly formed XML file that you may find.

FPC-XML is not something we invented. It is an implementation of
an official W3 specification. (www.w3.org)

Having this specification available means that we can read/write
any XML document out there that conforms to this spec, in a standard
manner. Since the programmer does not always control the XML he/she 
gets, sticking to the specifications means we're sure we'll we able
to handle any XML thrown at us.

That is why we implement FCL-XML. Sooner or later the day comes
when you'll need it's features, trust me :-)

Michael.

> 2010/1/28 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior wrote:
>>
>>> im actually needing better RTTI as to allow easier method invocation...
>>>
>>> But generally i feel my way of doing XML is better than FPC defaults
>>> (Too generic, tries to solve too many problems with the same code)
>>
>> What exactly do you mean by FPC defaults ?
>>
>> Michael.
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