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