Discussion of these changes can be found on the Mercury developers
mailing list archives from June 2018.
COPYING.LIB:
Add a special linking exception to the LGPL.
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Update references to COPYING.LIB.
Clean up some minor errors that have accumulated in copyright
messages.
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main, release
extras/xml/*.m:
Remove some non-abstract instance declarations from module
interfaces; the compiler no longer supports them.
Replace uses of ':' as a module qualifier.
Remove duplicate module imports.
Estimated hours taken: 44
Add a module to turn an XML document into a namespace-aware XML document.
extras/xml/tryit.m
change the sample program to print out the new XML output
extras/xml/xml.m
add xml.ns.m to the wrapper module
extra/xml/xml.ns.m
the new module containing predicates to turn an XML document to a
namespace-aware XML document
Estimated hours taken: 100
Add an XML parser to the extras directory
extras/xml/README:
A short readme describing the parser.
extras/xml/Mmake:
The Mmake file for the sample program.
extras/xml/tryit.m:
A sample program that just parses the files named on the command line.
extras/xml/xml*.m:
The parser itself.
extras/xml/unicode.m:
A bunch of functions that return the unicode values for numerous ascii
symbols.
extras/xml/parsing.m:
The parsing combinator set used by the xml parser.
