Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] missing xml_create_parser_ns is major Problem for

Hi Christian,

thanx for your very fast reply !
i too guess, that providing the 2.6 with with the win-binaries could 
solve the problem, because we're just afraid, that our users will use 
the windows-binaries. This would make our app (and i think others too !) 
unusable for them. I don't know your download-statistics, but I'd bet, 
that a lot is downloading the binaries and they all wouldn't be able to 
use any application that is using SAX with namespaces (please correct 
me, if I'm wrong!). Sure, if they all would compile php by themselfs, 
there shouldn't be a problem.

Could you maybe ask rob about a rethinking of the libxml 2.5.11 
decision? I guess he maybe thinks, that no one used this feature ?

Thanx alot for your help , cheers
daniel


Christian Stocker wrote:
> To make a possible long answer short.
> 
> The namespace support in the SAX parser of libxml2 < 2.6 is weak. It's a 
> major PITA to implement it correctly. If anyone wants to fix it, go 
> ahead, I don't mind. But IMHO it's a waste of time ;) Furthermore it was 
> decided, that PHP 5.0 won't require libxml2 2.6, but 5.1 will most 
> presumably.
> 
> I'm not sure, which libxml2 version is included in the windows build, 
> maybe we could provide 2.6 there, but that's Rob desicion, he's the 
> Windows expert for the whole XML-in-PHP stuff ;)
> 
> chregu
> 
> On 9.6.2004 16:42 Uhr, Daniel Westphal wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> my name is Daniel Westphal and I'm working at the "RDF API FOR 
>> PHP"(RAP) -
>> Project (http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/ ,
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdfapi-php/ ). RAP is
>> the leading PHP toolkit for parsing, searching,manipulating, serializing
>> and serving RDF models.
>>
>> We checked the compatibility of our code with the new php5/zend2
>> engine(PHP Version 5.0.0RC3RC2) and encountered problems when trying to
>> use our xml/rdf-parser. Our rdf-parser uses the SAX xml_create_parser_ns
>> function and works well with php 4.3.7.
>>
>> I read a blog (http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1658.html) and a thread at php-cvs
>> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-cvs&m=107749629522874&w=2)
>> which was dealing with this problem of using libxml2 2.5.11 and not 2.6.x
>> and  the mentioned function. The discussion seems to end with credo, that
>> no one is using this parser with namespace support and so it's just a
>> minor problem and not required to be fixed until the 5.0 release.
>>
>> But it's major problem for our project and its users!
>>
>> Our users (about 1200 downloads yet) use RAP mainly on servers where they
>> are having no possibility to manual upgrade to a higher libxml2 version,
>> because of missing administrator-rights.  Thus it is esential for our
>> project to have a working  xml_create_parser_ns function in the standard
>> PHP5 release.
>>
>> So it would be great (and highly appriciated by the PHP RDF community) if
>> somebody could have a look and get the function working again.
>>
>>
>> Thanks and cheers,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> -- View bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28710
>>
>>
>>
>> Actual result:
>> --------------
>> Warning: xml_parser_create_ns() [function.xml-parser-create-ns]: is 
>> broken
>> with libxml2 2.5.11. Please upgrade to libxml2 2.6 in
>> C:\!htdocs\rdfapi-php\api\syntax\RdfParser.php on line 2218
>>
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