Re: Replacing expat with libxml
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 00:12:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing expat with libxml | ||
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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