Using XML in GDB?

[Bob Rossi]

> > And we get all sorts of things for free; for instance, UTF-8, which will be
> > handy if someone ever wants to include internationalized descriptions in the
> > target description.
> > 
> > Does anyone have a good reason why GDB should not make use of this
> > well-standardized format instead of inventing additional ad-hoc formats?
> 
> No objection to using a well-standardized format, but that probably
> only makes sense if you're not going to write your own parser.  And I
> really would like to avoid making GDB dependent on a library that
> isn't standardly available on all systems we support.

What's wrong with libxml? http://xmlsoft.org/

Bob Rossi