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Expat XML Parser - version 2.0.0
Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
and Clark Cooper
Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Expat maintainers.
Expat - Version 2.0.0 Release Milano 0.83 (PasExpat 2.0.0 RM0.83)
Pascal Port By: Milan Marusinec alias Milano
milan@marusinec.sk
http://www.pasports.org/pasexpat
Copyright (c) 2006
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Introduction
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Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser
in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find
in the XML document (like start tags).
Read more at: http://expat.sourceforge.net
This version of Expat library is the Object Pascal one and this Readme Note
is dealing with issues mainly around the Pascal version.
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Compilation matrix
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Expat can be currently compiled on the platforms with compilers
according to the following matrix:
+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Platform / Compiler | Free Pascal (FPC) | Delphi (Borland) |
+======================+=====================+=====================+
| Windows Win32 API | versions 2.0 and up | versions 2.0 and up |
+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Linux X11 | versions 2.0 and up | * no support * |
+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| Mac OS X Carbon | versions 2.0 and up | * no support * |
+----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
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Port comments
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The Object Pascal version (PasExpat) was created for the main reason of having
a pascal version of the library when porting the SVG demo example in the AggPas
porting project, which was dependant on Expat for C.
This port is based on the C version 2.0.0, which was officialy released
on 11 January 2006.
PasExpat port is the pure manual work. There were used no c_to_pascal conversion
utilities and the port is the native-one, which means it uses no external dll
bindings - it's all just the native pascal code.
This Pascal library is an unfinished version marked as 0.83, which means
it is approximately 83% of the functionality of the original C library.
To use the library, just include the "expat" keyword into the uses clause.
General Pascal port Issues
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Source code comment marks:
Here and there around the PasExpat source code, following comment marks
can be found:
{untested} - unit or procedure/function, which was ported but not tested
{not_implemented} - procedure/function, which was not ported, because
related features were not implemented in port
{hack} - marks some nonstandard solution
{..} - part of the code, which is unfinished.
Compiling mode:
The "expat_mode.inc" is the main compiler mode configuration file.
The only one item, you would wish to change is the EXPAT_DEBUG conditional,
which turns on/off the debug mode compilation settings. With the
EXPAT_DEBUG not defined the range checking for example is turned off,
which should lead to building the faster and smallest code.
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What's next
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As I said, this version is rather unfinished but sufficient for the AggPas
SVG demo to work. In the near future, I am not gonna finish it, but if someone
would need it with full functionality, I suggest to pick up this 0.83 release
and finish the port.
All for now
Yours Milano
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