XML parser availability

[stephan]

Dear people of ZeroC,

can't you make the IceXML package regularly available as a static library? The wrapper is really elegant and the underlying expat lib is so small that both together should be more than a simple double of libxml which, unfortunately, is quite big.

regs,

Stephan

[mes]

Hi Stephan,

What exactly is your motivation here? Are you trying to avoid the use of shared libraries altogether?

- Mark

[stephan]

Hey!

Are you trying to avoid the use of shared libraries altogether?

No, not entirely. But I would like to reduce the dependencies to shared libraries. I need xml to read some configuration files, not more, so I think that expat provides enough functionality for me. libxml2 in contrary is so full-featured and thus so blown-up.
On the other hand, libxml2 was responsible for the assertions when running my services in debug mode. As soon as I removed libxml2-related code from my app, it ran without any problems! I assume that expat would not generate such problems. But that's just a guess :-)

regs,

Stephan