Hello Christian,

Sunday, February 22, 2004, 11:59:34 PM, you wrote:

> Ok

> there are 5 different solutions now to this problem

> 1) fix the code, so that it works with 2.5.x correctly as well
> 2) make 2.6.x a prerequisite
> 3) disable xml_parser_create_ns for 2.5.x
> 4) use broken code for 2.5.x and fixed code for 2.6.x
> 5) revert to yesterdays situation (broken for all...)

> The ideal solution would be 1), but I'd neither have the time nor am I 
> very keen on doing it. But if someone else wants to fix it, go ahead.

I prefer 3. simply add some #id's and be done. If someone fixes it for 2.5
then solution 1) is pretty much nicer - but i doubt anybody has time for
that.

> I'd prefer 2) or 3). I use 2.6.x since weeks and I don't have any known 
> problems with it. And if we go for 3), anyone who needs 
> xml_parser_create_ns would have to upgrade to 2.6., otherwise you're 
> just fine with 2.5.x. As nobody reported until now, that 
> xml_parser_create_ns is broken since months, I don't think it's a widely 
> used function anyway. Therefore 4) could also be a solution, 'cause 
> x_p_c_ns works ok, if you're namespace declarations are not too uncommon 
> and if you don't use default namespaces (but if you use namespaces, then 
> the chances are pretty high that you also use default namespaces..). 5) 
> is unacceptable, IMHO.

> What do you think?

> chregu


> On 2/22/04 8:10 PM, Rob Richards wrote:
>> On Sunday 22 February 2004 01:36 pm, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>> 
>>>>Mmmh
>>>>
>>>>too bad, will try to find a solution for libxml2 < 2.6
>>>>
>>>>I know, it's late in the release process, but the "old" implementation
>>>>didn't recognise default namespaces, which broke quite some ext/xml
>>>>scripts from php4 days and I'd like to have fixed that before 5.0.0
>>>
>>>In the meantime either add #ifdef configure checks or revert it out.
>>>Recognizing default namespaces shouldn't be hard to hack in to the code
>>>that was there, it just requires a bit of a rethink, and I believe we're
>>>set on supporting libxml2.5, right?
>> 
>> 
>> I personally would like to keep support for libxml 2.5, just because we know
>> it works correctly and stable with the xml extensions and I for one have had
>> little time to extensively test the xml extensions against 2.6.x. Other than
>> that, I have no other reasons for supporting 2.5
>> 
>> However, I believe the namespace support for SAX wasn't introduced or at least
>> wasn't fixed up until 2.6 so the issue may not be able to be fixed without
>> requiring 2.6
>> 
>> That being said, if everyone really wants to require 2.6 I would be fine with
>> it, but we may possibly be introducing new problems and will not be able to
>> fall back to 2.5. From what I have heard from people running 2.6.x have 
>> reported, there have been no problems so far, but not sure how heavily they
>> tested everything.
>> 
>> Rob

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