Re: [PHP-DEV] Replacing expat with libxml

At 15:32 27/04/2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After some discussions with various people at the PHP-Con, I decided it
>was important that we (at least) have libxml integrated with PHP by
>PHP5.  When it comes to XML processing, expat is a legacy library and it
>doesn't support nearly what is required for processing XML by todays
>standards.

I'm also somewhat worried about the downwards compatibility with 
expat.  Given the relatively wide scope of XML parsing, it'd be a small 
miracle if libxml can replace expat without breaking anybody's scripts, 
because of whatever quirks libxml and/or expat have.  I suggest we keep 
expat bundled as well, the price of bundling it is negligible.

Zeev