On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 11:47 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I'm afraid this isn't really going to fly. The libvirt public interface > is defined by C library API/ABI, and the XML format. To provide the > guarenteed stability & consistency of this interface across releases, > we need to have the XML parser & formatting included in libvirt & used > by all the driver impls. We used to have the situation where XML parsing > was delegated to individual drivers, but that ultimately caused us > painful inconsistency between drivers. Here though you're going excactly in the opposite direction: you will have two different validators that are in danger of diverging, when you could have just one. > Now in the case of the netcf impl for the interface APIs, things will > be nice & simple, because the incoming XML can be simply parsed & then > reformatted back into same schema. You don't even need to reformat - just pass the original string on. David -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list