Comment by barefootliam

When i first encountered the early GNOME 1 software back in the very late 1990s, and DV (libml author) was active, i was very surprised when i asked for the public API for a library and was told, look at the header files and the source.

They simply didn’t seem to have a concept of data hiding and encapsulation, or worse, felt it led to evil nasty proprietary hidden code and were better than that.

They were all really nice people, mind you—i met quite a few of them, still know some—and the GNOME project has grown up a lot, but i think that’s where libxml was coming from. Daniel didn’t really expect it to be quite so widely used, though, i’m sure.

I’ve actually considered stepping up to maintain libxslt, but i don’t know enough about building on Windows and don’t have access to non-Linux systems really. Remote access will only go so far on Windows i think, although it’d be OK on Mac.

It might be better to move to one of the Rust XML stacks that are under active development (one more active than the other).