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About xcb-proto
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The xcb-proto package provides the XML-XCB (X C Bindings) protocol
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descriptions that libxcb uses to generate the majority of its code and API.
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We provide them separately from libxcb to allow reuse by other projects,
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such as additional language bindings, protocol dissectors, or
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documentation generators.
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Separation of XCB's transport and protocol layers simplifies both
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writing extensions and client-side support for extensions.
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By contrast, with the xlib infrastructure, client-side support for
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new extensions requires significant duplication of effort. With XCB and
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the XML-XCB protocol descriptions, client-side support for a new
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extension requires only an XML description of the extension--and not a
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single line of code.
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Python libraries: xcb-proto also contains language-independent Python
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libraries that are used to parse an XML description and create objects
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used by Python code generators in individual language bindings.
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