Re: some thoughts to start

Hi Jens,

On Monday 02 January 2006 13:13, Jens Herden wrote:
> Hi Andras,
>
> > So Jens, I think having the data structures in KDOM for the Kuanta
> > preview release is out of question.
>
> yes, it is sad but we can not change it yet.
>
> > Let's go with the parser alone for now and discuss that (in a different
> > thread).
>
> After looking around in KDOM and KHTML2 I would propose the following:
>
> Let us try to create our own parser backend, which could be based on Qt's
> XML parser. If we do this right we can load this in the future via
> kdom/parser/KDOMParserFactory

One thing that seemed difficult to achieve with the KDOM builder and parser 
backend was rebuilding partial areas only.
Are you suggesting to rewrite the parser? I think it would be a good 
opportunity to clean the code, but the amount of work and the time to get it 
stable again may be daunting...

Paulo

> Let us create our own builder that creates our old datastructure but uses
> the interface in kdom/parser/KDOMDocumentBuilder.h  This would be only a
> temporary solution in order to create our old data structure. In the future
> we would switch to the builder of KDOM.
>
> This would be used for HTML/XML parsing only.
> We would add custom attributes for our internal need in Quanta.
>
> All parsing of special areas would happen on top of this with our current
> code.
>
> I did not look in any detail yet, but this is the direction I would like to
> go in the moment.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> I will be in the province in the next 6 days and I do not know if I will
> have any internet access.
>
> Jens