[FFmpeg-soc] Preferred XML library for XSPF playlist parsing (or write one from scratch)?

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 6/12/2009 1:14 AM, Geza Kovacs wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm starting work on an XSPF playlist parser, and since XSPF (as well as
> SMIL and ASX) is an XML format, and FFmpeg doesn't seem to have its own
> XML parser nor does it link against any existing ones, I'd like to know
> whether there's any preferred existing XML parser I could use and link
> against (Expat, libxml2?), or whether I should write my own rudimentary
> parser from scratch to avoid external dependencies. If it's the latter,
> should it be put at libavutil/xml.c or libavformat/xml.c?
> 

If you are motivated, native parser is good to avoid dependencies.
I think libavformat/xml.c is fine for now.

Though I think ffmpeg supporting the concatenation/playlist feature
should really be working before working on this :)

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