Re: Bundling libxml2 and expat compatibility layer

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 03:39:08PM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 16:59, Adam Dickmeiss wrote: > > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 11:21:19AM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 08:36, Adam Dickmeiss wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:11:14PM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > 3) Proper unicode support > > > > What is it that Expat misses? > > > > > > > > > > Exactly what you said. :) It doesn't handle these encodings natively, > > > libxml2 does. Libxml2 can detect proper XML encodings, character sets, > > > and use the appropriate functions. It also natively detects and uses > > > iconv() to do encoding transformations. Its not that expat can't be > > > made to properly support unicode, but it can't be said that it does. > > > > Strickly speaking libxml2 doesn't do the conversions either. Both libs > > use iconv which is just fine. As I said a number times, the fact that > > Expat does not interpret encodings is due to ("bad") code in ext/xml. > > > > Well, strictly speaking ;-), expat doesn't support UTF-16, libxml2 does. Exactly:) Expat supports UTF-16. But for whatever reason the coders of ext/xml didn't like it. > > Will people still be able to configure PHP to use Expat for the basic > > functions (old xml) or will that wrapper disappear? I too am a little > > worried about performance. We have an application where many XML files > > are parsed to produce just one HTML page and we're probably not the only > > ones to do that. > > Don't worry about Dmitri's claims, they are as bogus as bogus can get. > Libxml2 is equally as fast as expat (its a matter of a few clock ticks > difference.) But, as I stated in my original message, both expat and > libxml2 will be supported - in fact, that's the whole point of the > bundling schema, and the expat compatibility layer (C level). A few hundred thousand ticks probably. Time will tell. It's a win-win when one can choose either. So I'm happy. I can't seem to see your new stuff in CVS, yet. Right? -- Adam > -Sterling > -- > "Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." > - Henry Ford > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Adam Dickmeiss mailto:adam@indexdata.dk http://www.indexdata.dk Index Data T: +45 33410100 Mob.: 212 212 66