[Playlist] Re: XSPF support in Amarok

[Lucas Gonze]

Not sure I understand this conversation --

>> Expat appears to have Windows support so that wouldn't be an issue.
>> And yea, pretty much everyone already has Expat.  It would take some
>> work creating a QXmlStreamReader/QXmlStreamWriter obviously. Looking
>> at the libspiff API, it would also take some elbow grease interfacing
>> with it (just the normal abstract data type conversions). The fact
>> that a  QXmlStream[Reader|Writer] could interface with 'native' Amarok
>> data types could be an advantage, but I'm not sure how much of one.
>> Either way we end up with a stream-based XSPF writer/reader.
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> It should be nothing more than making QStrings from char/wchar_t.
> I'm looking forward to proper XSPF support in Amarok!

Is the idea that there needs to be an adapter layer to enable the QT XML 
interfaces that Amarok relies on to access expat-based parsers?