Re: [PHP4BETA] error(s) compiling DOM xml module...

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Jesse Griffis wrote: > I'm running a development server that has been reliably serving up PHP3 > pages for quite a while. PHP4 is out, and I figure "Pretty cool, I'll try > out the DOM XML stuff that they just did". Unfortunately, PHP4 won't > compile with DOM enabled. Here's the details (please feel free to slap me > around if I miss something vital--I'm not that proficient in fixing this > kind of thing): > uname -a: > Linux ns2.andalon.net 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 i686 unknown > (In fact, feel free to check out: ns2.andalon.net/phpinfo.php...it's working > nicely. :)) > It's running RedHat 6.1. > Seeing as the DOM XML docs say you need gnome's XML library, these RPMs seem > to be the relevant ones: > (the (-devel) part means I have the 'user' and devel rpms installed) > gnome-core(-devel)-1.0.54-2 > gnome-libs(-devel)-1.0.54-1 > libxml(-devel)-1.8.7-1 > domxml.c: In function `php_if_domxml_children': > domxml.c:554: structure has no member named `children' > domxml.c:556: structure has no member named `children' [snip] I took a look at the headers on my system for comparison [RedHat... uh.. (6.0+6.1)/2], and in /usr/include/gnome-xml/tree.h from libxml-devel-1.7.3-1, I find the following structure: typedef struct xmlNode { ... struct xmlNode *childs; /* parent->childs link */ ... } I'm guessing this part of the code was originally written by a non-native speaker of English? :) If PHP4 is using 'children' instead of 'childs', then this was probably changed in a later version of GNOME's libxml. According to the NEWS file, nothing older than libxml 2.0 beta is now supported. Just checked RedHat 6.2 as well -- libxml-1.8.6-2 also lists 'childs' instead of 'children'. So it looks like this DOM XML support doesn't work with any versions of libxml that RedHat ships. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer