Re: Bundling libxml2 and expat compatibility layer
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Mon, 19 May 2003 18:00:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bundling libxml2 and expat compatibility layer | ||
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At 10:39 PM 5/4/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:
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).I'm a few weeks behind but I'm just curious, will the compatibility layer limit the extension when used with libxml2? (i.e. least common denominator?) Are we going to get good docs for all the new features of libxml2? :) Andi