Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] XML Security?

Hello,
> That's completely understandable. However, doing this forces us to
> either (a) bundle libxml2 and libxsl or (b) require libxml2 and libxsl
> to be installed on a machine in order to use PHP.
> Bundling libxml2 and libxsl more than doubles the size of the
> distribution, but since not all servers have libxsl... Well, you get
> the point.
	The bundle process is indeed complex and you will probably not want to 
include all the dependent libraries in PHP.
	But you can *require* them by default (as the libxml-2.5.9 is required 
by default, right?), to make Redhat and Suse and the rest deploy PHP 
compiled the right way (with the right extensions) from the beginning.
	I am somehow sure that they will bundle all the extensions (that are 
not marked as experimental), so libxsl will probably make its way in 
Redhat 10, but it would be refreshing to know that regular hosting 
provider that will upgrade their PHP 4 (or 3?) versions to PHP 5 will 
provide at least a very XMLish platform by default (that includes, of 
course XSL)

> As you can see, it's a balancing act.
	A balancing act indeed, but the decision should be taken by 
understanding the reasons people will have to upgrade to PHP5 - and they 
are mostly the reasons of using the new OOP engine, the new try/catch 
error handling or the general performance improvement. All those are 
required because PHP is used more and more in the enterprise, and one of 
the technology gaps to the other enterprise platforms is XML and XSL.
	I know that probably not A LOT of people are requesting XSL support 
like I do, but this happens because they didn't have support from the 
beginning and they don't know how to use it (as all the rest of the 
major web development platforms have and emphasize the use of XML and XSL)

				Alexandru

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