init: API

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:04:53PM -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
>    Just to add to the general bitch session,  I've seen XML add to 
> mindless bloat in applications.

Not generally. The library is shared (unlike all those thousands of
homebrew config parsers)

>    Other Gnome software depends on libxml.  So I end up having to load 
> at least two XML parsers when I load my application.  I can easily see 

Thats not an XML problem but a GNOME problem (or an X one.. )

>    Even people like Tim Bray have complained about the awkwardness of 
> working with XML  APIs.

Some of them are disgusting, but that isnt an XML problem either.