[osg-submissions] Fixes for VRML2 plugin

[Robert Osfield]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Jan Ciger <jan.ciger at gmail.com> wrote:

>  If the decision is made to move the plugin to a later version of
>  OpenVRML with Boost, it will have to be re-implemented due to completely
>  different API. I have received a patch from one developer doing this, so
>  it is possible.
>
>  On the other hand, there will be no visible benefit apart from perhaps
>  easier maintenance, because the plugin uses only the parser from
>  OpenVRML which didn't change much between the versions.
>
>  If someone knows about a portable and small library for parsing VRML, I
>  will be very interested (I know about Coin3D and it is neither small nor
>  working properly).

Would it be possible just to rip out the parser from OpenVML?

Perhaps one could just write a parser from scratch...

Robert.