[Mono-devel-list] xml serialization framework

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Concerning the use of libxml. Are we hoping that mono will plug into
> it? I would favour not, but performance may be better with the native
> code doing the work. The parsing mechanism is fairly different I
> think, and may not plug into XmlReader's stream reader logic well.

We have no plans on using libxml for the implementation of the Mono XML
class libraries.  I think Atsushi was pointing out that today our XML
classes are missing some things, and if people need something urgently
today, they could use a wrapper around libxml.