[Fwd: Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] missing xml_create_parser_ns is major Problem for RDF API Project]

Forwarded to list... It's not my personal issue ;) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] missing xml_create_parser_ns is major Problem for RDF API Project Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:36:29 +0200 From: Daniel Westphal <mail@d-westphal.de> To: Christian Stocker <chregu@bitflux.ch> References: <20040609144240.45920.qmail@pb1.pair.com> <40C72653.7060301@bitflux.ch> Hi Christian, thanx for your very fast reply ! :) i too guess, that providing the 2.6 with with the win-binaries could solve the problem, because we're just afraid, that our users will use the windows-binaries. This would make our app (and i think others too !) unusable for them. I don't know your download-statistics, but I'd bet, that a lot is downloading the binaries and they all wouldn't be able to use any application that is using SAX with namespaces. If you'd take a look at the w3c.org web-page you could see the growing semantic-web community . Sure, if they all compile php by themselfs there shouldn't be a problem. Could you maybe ask rob about a rethinking of the libxml 2.5.11 decision ? I think, he guessed, that no one used this feature :) Thanx alot for your help , cheers daniel Christian Stocker wrote:

To make a possible long answer short. The namespace support in the SAX parser of libxml2 < 2.6 is weak. It's a major PITA to implement it correctly. If anyone wants to fix it, go ahead, I don't mind. But IMHO it's a waste of time ;) Furthermore it was decided, that PHP 5.0 won't require libxml2 2.6, but 5.1 will most presumably. I'm not sure, which libxml2 version is included in the windows build, maybe we could provide 2.6 there, but that's Rob desicion, he's the Windows expert for the whole XML-in-PHP stuff ;) chregu On 9.6.2004 16:42 Uhr, Daniel Westphal wrote:

Hello, my name is Daniel Westphal and I'm working at the "RDF API FOR PHP"(RAP) - Project (http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/ , http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdfapi-php/ ). RAP is the leading PHP toolkit for parsing, searching,manipulating, serializing and serving RDF models. We checked the compatibility of our code with the new php5/zend2 engine(PHP Version 5.0.0RC3RC2) and encountered problems when trying to use our xml/rdf-parser. Our rdf-parser uses the SAX xml_create_parser_ns function and works well with php 4.3.7. I read a blog (http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1658.html) and a thread at php-cvs (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-cvs&m=107749629522874&w=2) which was dealing with this problem of using libxml2 2.5.11 and not 2.6.x and the mentioned function. The discussion seems to end with credo, that no one is using this parser with namespace support and so it's just a minor problem and not required to be fixed until the 5.0 release. But it's major problem for our project and its users! Our users (about 1200 downloads yet) use RAP mainly on servers where they are having no possibility to manual upgrade to a higher libxml2 version, because of missing administrator-rights. Thus it is esential for our project to have a working xml_create_parser_ns function in the standard PHP5 release. So it would be great (and highly appriciated by the PHP RDF community) if somebody could have a look and get the function working again. Thanks and cheers, Daniel -- View bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28710 Actual result: -------------- Warning: xml_parser_create_ns() [function.xml-parser-create-ns]: is broken with libxml2 2.5.11. Please upgrade to libxml2 2.6 in C:\!htdocs\rdfapi-php\api\syntax\RdfParser.php on line 2218

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