Re: libxml bundling

derick@php.net wrote:

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: [...]

I wish it became a default module, too.

Sure, lets enable everything by default then. ODBC is very important too, and of course also encryption, so we need mcrypt and mhash, or the very important FTP and PGSQL extensions. No seriously, I don't think we should enable more things by default. I even don't see any reason to enable the mbstring module, as only the japanese/koreans / other multibyte language really need this. Enabling things by default tend to annoy sysadmins who want full control of their install.

I see xml and unicode as critical technologies for PHP in it's role as a web based scripting language, as critical as html itself. If people cannot seperate that from the issue of embeding a bit more code in PHP distributions, and recognize that xml is as critical to the future of PHP as the web itself, well, there's no convincing. Shane