Does anyone know if Nils Haeck is OK ? SimLib and NativeXml

[Blavatsky 0]

Hello,
I was wondering if Nils is OK after 2009 accident falling off a horse and having a stroke ?
I was also wondering if anyone has had any success running his SimLib (NativeJPG / NativeXml on Delphi 11) namely the "XmlTest" Demo project....
I did get one of the demos working "Viewer32"

When I run

I sincerely hope he is well.


Kind regards


Richard

from Down Under.

[Anders Melander 1784]

Googling his name reveals that he posted on LinkedIn 2 weeks ago. My guess is that he's simply not using Delphi anymore.

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

I just compiled one of my projects on D11.1 and it uses NativeXML. I used to use it a lot, then replaced with OXML, but still keep NativeXML around just for a few tasks.

Edited March 16, 2022 by Mike Torrettinni

[Uwe Raabe 2057]

I make heavy use of NativeXML in Project Magician. It is a small footprint, easy to use, one unit implementation and (to be honest) I am just used to it.

[Ann Lynnworth 11]

I use & maintain a fork of TNativeXml, with permission from nils, in the ZaphodsMap project which is open source on sourceforge, here: https://sourceforge.net/p/zaphodsmap

 

I have not corresponded with Nils in more than 10 years.  Good to know he is still posting on LinkedIn.

FWIW, I still prefer to use TNativeXML when I need to iterate through nodes of XML.

 

 

[Bill Meyer 337]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:13 AM, Mike Torrettinni said:

I just compiled one of my projects on D11.1 and it uses NativeXML. I used to use it a lot, then replaced with OXML, but still keep NativeXML around just for a few tasks.

Curious about your experience with OXML. It looks interesting, and corporate makes it very hard to use open source, so NativeXML is not an option.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

5 minutes ago, Bill Meyer said:

... corporate makes it very hard to use open source ... 

Even those with a non-restrictive license? 

[Bill Meyer 337]

Just now, Lars Fosdal said:

Even those with a non-restrictive license? 

Yes. Submission up the chain, eval by some automated system, and eventually, a possible approval.

 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

If there is an automated system that can eval Delphi libs, I'd like to know it! 

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

19 hours ago, Bill Meyer said:

Curious about your experience with OXML. It looks interesting, and corporate makes it very hard to use open source, so NativeXML is not an option.

No complaints on OXML, very fast but I don't use any special CDATA stuff or Schema related stuff, so basic read/write access. The sax event access was a little to get used to it, but I never used it before, so I have no idea if it's using standard sax events approach or it's own implementation. Works good.

And support is good, too!

 

I moved from NativeXML to OXML most of my projects, except 1 and not regretting it.

 

[Attila Kovacs 629]

On 3/16/2023 at 10:57 PM, Bill Meyer said:

Curious about your experience with OXML. It looks interesting, and corporate makes it very hard to use open source, so NativeXML is not an option.

In short, one of the must haves.