XML Library in the MC IDE?

[Wilhelm Sanke]

I resend my post below (addressed to the use-revolution list) to you as 
"Metacard specialists".

Has anybody tried and succeeded to work with the XML library in the MC IDE?

Of course one could write one's own routines for processing XML files 
where needed, but there *is* a XML library and I am wondering how it 
could be integrated in Metacard as it possible with other Rev-specific 
libraries or handlers.

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke

> On Sat Jan 22, 2005, Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net wrote:
>
> >>> > Could anybody tell me where the "XML library" is located in the Rev
> >>> > IDE?
> >
> >>     
> >> I think it's found as 'revXML.bundle' for MacOS and 'revXML.dll' for
> >> Windows in the 'components' folder inside the revolution folder...
> >>
> >> Is that what you mean?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Mark
>
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> Unfortunately the XML library with 'revXML.dll'  does not seem to work
> in the Metacard IDE.
>
> I am updating the search routines of my "Topsearch" stack to include
> XML-files. This works in the Rev IDE, but not in Metacard, even if I set
> up an identical directory structure, i.e. putting  'revXML.dll'  into
> folder "components/global environment" like in Rev.
>
> Even the engine (version 2.6.2A3) is the same in both environments, only
> the names "mc.exe" and "revolution.exe" differ.
>
> I also tried to transfer the needed MC stacks into the Rev directory
> (only 3 extra stacks are needed besides the "mc.exe" engine to put up
> the slim MC IDE), but in spite of that the XML library was not accessible.
>
> The usual "transcripted" libraries or handlers defined elsewhere *can*
> be used in the MC IDE as well (provided the necessary links to other
> libraries or handlers in the Rev IDE are established in an analogous way
> in Metacard - which may be complicated in some cases, given the very
> complex structure of the Rev IDE).
>
> Am I missing something or is this an instance of lacking compatability
> between Revolution and Metacard?
>
> I am not familiar with DLLs, but could it be that 'revXML.dll'  checks
> for the engine name (or the other way round) and only cooperates with
> "Revolution.exe" and not with the same engine named "mc.exe"? If this
> would be the case the compatability problem could be easily fixed inside
> the engine - or the DLL? - with an improved "name-calling" routine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke


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