[Dev-luatex] XML abilities in LuaTeX

[TeXWorld]

Hans Hagen a écrit :
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> TeXWorld wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to LuaTeX and Lua in general and I try to find tools to 
>> process datas stored in XML files.
>> I want to do this with LaTeX (pdfLuaLaTeX in TeXLive 2008) but 
>> there's no tool. Contrary to LaTeX, ConTeXt does have abilities to 
>> work with XML files.
>> Do you think it could be possible to have LuaTeX equipped with such 
>> abilities one day ? I read in the LuaTeX reference that LuaTeX comes 
>> with modules such as LuaZIP that is really a good thing. Do you think 
>> it would be possible to have something like the LuaXML module added 
>> to luatex too ?
>
> this is not so much related to luatex (typesetting engine) but more to 
> the input which can be anything (tex, database, xml, whatever); 
> context does not use libraries but does xml in pure lua
>
Hello Hans, hello everybody

I did not answer since Taco gave me a solution...


> adding all kind of 'modules' to lua will make it way too big and 
> unmaintainable (apart from philosophical debates about which of the 
> many variants to choose)
>
Yes of course

> in the future there will be an option to load libraries (once we've 
> sorted out the best way to deal with it in a secure way in the tex 
> tree etc) 
I was recently thinking about that and that's really good news. I have 
several questions :

-when do you think this option could be available il LuaTeX ? This year ?
-who will decide which lua modules will be available for/used with 
LuaTeX ? Users ?
-could it be possible to install and remove any of them ? Is it the kind 
of thing that could be done with the TeX distribution (I'm thinking of 
tlmgr in TeXLive for example)

> but even then maintainance of libraries is not part of luatex itself 
> (the exceptions are the libs we really need for typesetting, like 
> fontforge which are also adapted to luatex and therefore part of the 
> kernel; luazip and luasocket somehow fit in the core but database 
> connectivity, xml handling etc is way off)
>