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What applications will develop from such an XML API?
One area where I can tell you that we had difficulty with C++ was attempting to operate on COLLADA documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLLADA The documents are very, very large and achieving efficient import/export for large 3D models was difficult. We swithced between several different XML libraries, first starting with free ones and then switching to commercial libraries. In the end, we made it work reasonably well, but it was a very painful experience and the memory usage and runtime performance of several libraries was very painful. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline The Computer Graphics Museum http://computergraphicsmuseum.org The Terminals Wiki http://terminals.classiccmp.org Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com