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<H2><A NAME="1_2">History</A></H2>
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<P>Mini-XML was initially developed for the <A href="http://gimp-print.sf.net/">
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Gimp-Print</A> project to replace the rather large and unwieldy <TT>
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libxml2</TT> library with something substantially smaller and
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easier-to-use. It all began one morning in June of 2003 when Robert
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posted the following sentence to the developer's list:</P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>It's bad enough that we require libxml2, but rolling our own
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XML parser is a bit more than we can handle.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>I then replied with:</P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Given the limited scope of what you use in XML, it should be
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trivial to code a mini-XML API in a few hundred lines of code.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>I took my own challenge and coded furiously for two days to produced
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the initial public release of Mini-XML, total lines of code: 696.
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Robert promptly integrated Mini-XML into Gimp-Print and removed
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libxml2.</P>
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<P>Thanks to lots of feedback and support from various developers,
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Mini-XML has evolved since then to provide a more complete XML
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implementation and now stands at a whopping 2,974 lines of code,
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compared to 103,893 lines of code for libxml2 version 2.6.9. Aside from
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Gimp-Print, Mini-XML is used for the following projects/software
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applications:</P>
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<LI><A href="http://www.cups.org/">Common UNIX Printing System</A></LI>
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<LI><A href="http://www.cups.org/ddk/">CUPS Driver Development Kit</A></LI>
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<LI><A href="http://www.easysw.com/printpro/">ESP Print Pro</A></LI>
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<LI><A href="http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net">ZynAddSubFX</A></LI>
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<P>Please email me (mxml @ easysw . com) if you would like your project
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added or removed from this list, or if you have any comments/quotes you
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would like me to publish about your experiences with Mini-XML.</P>
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