Request for Review: xmlstartlet

[Ville Skyttä]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:17 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [cc'ing the author of xmlstarlet]
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:34:24PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > I think this is a bit too much to allow this in the current state to get
> > > in. It would be cool if you can get those fixed,
> > 
> > Fair enough. In that case I withdraw this package until further notice.
> 
>   Note that Ville Skyttä is pushing gdome2 to target xsh. In my opionion
> xsh and xmlstartlet are competing, both are wrappers around libxml2 to
> provide XML oriented scripting. I honnestly don't know which one might
> be better or more complete.

Ah, I wasn't aware of xmlstartlet, need to take a look at it sometime.
If it makes it into Extras or libxml2/libxslt sooner than xsh, and
provides the same or "better" functionality, I could imagine dropping
pushing xsh.

But I'm sure gdome2 will come in handy for other apps besides xsh.