[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Galois web libraries for Haskell released

[Aaron Tomb]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 6:20 AM, John Goerzen wrote:
>>  * xml
>>        A simple, lightweight XML parser/generator.
>>
>>        http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xml
>
> Can you describe how this compares to HaXml?  Were there  
> deficiencies in
> HaXml?

The main difference is that it's simpler. It's perhaps 10-20% the size  
of HaXml. For a program that just has to do simple XML processing,  
it's sometimes undesirable to have to link in a library that does a  
lot more than you need.

Another difference is that this package is BSD licensed, while HaXml  
is under the LGPL.

Aaron