Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: david at moodle dot com Reported by:phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary:libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package:XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version:5.2.6 Assigned To:rrichards Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: In Moodle (http:/moodle.org), this issue causes troubles in several areas, including SSO support via MNet. Today, I was debugging some SSO problem in Moodle/Mahara and tracked it down to this xml_parse() issue. I have published a patch with workaround for the SSO in Moodle at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=101459#p753158 In this particular case, the combination was PHP 5.2.13-pl0-gentoo and libxml 2.7.3 (note that this combo is supposed to be fixed already). Previous Comments: [2011-01-04 22:08:21] rricha...@php.net HTML is not XML so non issue as the sax parser is not meant to handle HTML If PHP is not linked against 2.7.3 or higher it wont work either. So back to "Compile PHP (5.2.9 or higher) against the newer libxml (2.7.3 or higher)" as most of those search results even tell you. Without phpinfo and your sample code I would say the problem is on your end [2011-01-04 21:54:53] lwc at mailmetrash dot cm Regarding your e-mail message, please let's continue this discussion publicly. It's established that this bug can happen with any (HTML) input, so there's no point exposing my own. Check out http://www.google.com/search?q=libxml+%2Bbrackets for tons of example code. But most importantly, is it possible that all this time no one ever posted a bug about it in libxml's own tracker? If so, I think I'll post something there soon. [2011-01-04 20:55:54] lwc at mailmetrash dot com Again, I use libxml v2.7.7 (with PHP v5.2.14). [2011-01-04 20:04:33] rricha...@php.net To hopefully close this once and for all: Compile PHP (5.2.9 or higher) against the newer libxml (2.7.3 or higher). PHP code change: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/ext/xml/compat.c? r1=272374&r2=273286 Libxml code change: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/parser.c?r1=3803&r2=3807 [2011-01-04 19:50:35] lwc at mailmetrash dot com It still happens to me even in libxml v2.7.7. Please take it seriously. At least mention in what scenarios does it happen and does it have a link in libxml's own bug tracker. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: lwc at mailmetrash dot cm Reported by:phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary:libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package:XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version:5.2.6 Assigned To:rrichards Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Regarding your e-mail message, please let's continue this discussion publicly. It's established that this bug can happen with any (HTML) input, so there's no point exposing my own. Check out http://www.google.com/search?q=libxml+%2Bbrackets for tons of example code. But most importantly, is it possible that all this time no one ever posted a bug about it in libxml's own tracker? If so, I think I'll post something there soon. Previous Comments: [2011-01-04 20:55:54] lwc at mailmetrash dot com Again, I use libxml v2.7.7 (with PHP v5.2.14). [2011-01-04 20:04:33] rricha...@php.net To hopefully close this once and for all: Compile PHP (5.2.9 or higher) against the newer libxml (2.7.3 or higher). PHP code change: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/ext/xml/compat.c? r1=272374&r2=273286 Libxml code change: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/parser.c?r1=3803&r2=3807 [2011-01-04 19:50:35] lwc at mailmetrash dot com It still happens to me even in libxml v2.7.7. Please take it seriously. At least mention in what scenarios does it happen and does it have a link in libxml's own bug tracker. [2010-07-07 23:17:53] i_cypher at hotmail dot com I am seeing this error in 2.7.3 as well, so the fix does not seem to be working. [2010-04-19 00:05:30] nick dot phillips at otago dot ac dot nz Just FYI - I have been seeing what would appear to be this issue with libxml2 2.7.6 (with Moodle), so it seems that "2.7.3 or higher" doesn't cut it. Reverting to 2.6.32 solved the problem for me. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: lwc at mailmetrash dot com Reported by:phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary:libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package:XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version:5.2.6 Assigned To:rrichards Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Again, I use libxml v2.7.7 (with PHP v5.2.14). Previous Comments: [2011-01-04 20:04:33] rricha...@php.net To hopefully close this once and for all: Compile PHP (5.2.9 or higher) against the newer libxml (2.7.3 or higher). PHP code change: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/ext/xml/compat.c? r1=272374&r2=273286 Libxml code change: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/parser.c?r1=3803&r2=3807 [2011-01-04 19:50:35] lwc at mailmetrash dot com It still happens to me even in libxml v2.7.7. Please take it seriously. At least mention in what scenarios does it happen and does it have a link in libxml's own bug tracker. [2010-07-07 23:17:53] i_cypher at hotmail dot com I am seeing this error in 2.7.3 as well, so the fix does not seem to be working. [2010-04-19 00:05:30] nick dot phillips at otago dot ac dot nz Just FYI - I have been seeing what would appear to be this issue with libxml2 2.7.6 (with Moodle), so it seems that "2.7.3 or higher" doesn't cut it. Reverting to 2.6.32 solved the problem for me. [2009-01-11 12:06:01] rricha...@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. This fix also requires the soon to be released libxml2-2.7.3 or higher when using 2.7.x. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: lwc at mailmetrash dot com Reported by:phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary:libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package:XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version:5.2.6 Assigned To:rrichards Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: It still happens to me even in libxml v2.7.7. Please take it seriously. At least mention in what scenarios does it happen and does it have a link in libxml's own bug tracker. Previous Comments: [2010-07-07 23:17:53] i_cypher at hotmail dot com I am seeing this error in 2.7.3 as well, so the fix does not seem to be working. [2010-04-19 00:05:30] nick dot phillips at otago dot ac dot nz Just FYI - I have been seeing what would appear to be this issue with libxml2 2.7.6 (with Moodle), so it seems that "2.7.3 or higher" doesn't cut it. Reverting to 2.6.32 solved the problem for me. [2009-01-11 12:06:01] rricha...@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. This fix also requires the soon to be released libxml2-2.7.3 or higher when using 2.7.x. [2009-01-03 04:03:53] david+phpbugs at midrange dot com Ok, I'm going to try and rebuild the Fedora 8 source RPM to avoid the libxml2 bug ... but I'm not all that familiar with how PHP is built ... and could use a pointer or two on what to change on the configure command line. Any suggestions? [2009-01-02 23:03:29] geoffers+phpbugs at gmail dot com What is the recommended advice for PHP software that relies upon the XML extension? It'd be easier to say that libxml2.7.02.7.2 wasn't supported if it weren't for the fact that I've had at least one user come who had LIBXML_VERSION equal to 20632 with this issue we can't just add a LIBXML_VERSION based workaround, not just because the constant doesn't exist on 4.3.0, but also because it is seemingly isn't reliable. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: i_cypher at hotmail dot com Reported by: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I am seeing this error in 2.7.3 as well, so the fix does not seem to be working. Previous Comments: [2010-04-19 00:05:30] nick dot phillips at otago dot ac dot nz Just FYI - I have been seeing what would appear to be this issue with libxml2 2.7.6 (with Moodle), so it seems that "2.7.3 or higher" doesn't cut it. Reverting to 2.6.32 solved the problem for me. [2009-01-11 12:06:01] rricha...@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. This fix also requires the soon to be released libxml2-2.7.3 or higher when using 2.7.x. [2009-01-03 04:03:53] david+phpbugs at midrange dot com Ok, I'm going to try and rebuild the Fedora 8 source RPM to avoid the libxml2 bug ... but I'm not all that familiar with how PHP is built ... and could use a pointer or two on what to change on the configure command line. Any suggestions? [2009-01-02 23:03:29] geoffers+phpbugs at gmail dot com What is the recommended advice for PHP software that relies upon the XML extension? It'd be easier to say that libxml2.7.02.7.2 wasn't supported if it weren't for the fact that I've had at least one user come who had LIBXML_VERSION equal to 20632 with this issue we can't just add a LIBXML_VERSION based workaround, not just because the constant doesn't exist on 4.3.0, but also because it is seemingly isn't reliable. [2009-01-01 20:09:07] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If the Fedora packages do not work then this is a RedHat packaging problem and you should complain to them/open a bug etc. etc. Like I say, in Mandriva we made sure we provided packages that worked because they were compiled with expat. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
Bug #45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 ID: 45996 Comment by: nick dot phillips at otago dot ac dot nz Reported by: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Summary: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse() Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Just FYI - I have been seeing what would appear to be this issue with libxml2 2.7.6 (with Moodle), so it seems that "2.7.3 or higher" doesn't cut it. Reverting to 2.6.32 solved the problem for me. Previous Comments: [2009-01-11 12:06:01] rricha...@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. This fix also requires the soon to be released libxml2-2.7.3 or higher when using 2.7.x. [2009-01-03 04:03:53] david+phpbugs at midrange dot com Ok, I'm going to try and rebuild the Fedora 8 source RPM to avoid the libxml2 bug ... but I'm not all that familiar with how PHP is built ... and could use a pointer or two on what to change on the configure command line. Any suggestions? [2009-01-02 23:03:29] geoffers+phpbugs at gmail dot com What is the recommended advice for PHP software that relies upon the XML extension? It'd be easier to say that libxml2.7.02.7.2 wasn't supported if it weren't for the fact that I've had at least one user come who had LIBXML_VERSION equal to 20632 with this issue we can't just add a LIBXML_VERSION based workaround, not just because the constant doesn't exist on 4.3.0, but also because it is seemingly isn't reliable. [2009-01-01 20:09:07] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If the Fedora packages do not work then this is a RedHat packaging problem and you should complain to them/open a bug etc. etc. Like I say, in Mandriva we made sure we provided packages that worked because they were compiled with expat. [2009-01-01 19:31:49] alex at peoples dot ru Thanks for advice, but I'm not guru in the Linux, as I haven't cpanel on my server. I tried use 'yum remove' libxml2 and add new, but off course this is stupid and doesn't work. I liked Linux, as the easiest and powerful system, but now, I'm stock. I haven't any idea how I can remove libxml2 and build new system with old one. One idea - change system on Fedora 9, because FC 10 have the same bug with fucking libxml2. Sorry, I was at Data Center 8 hours and I had problem with servers with new system. I don't like updates now... they have bugs every where, and I'm tiered resolve this bugs. Sorry, Have a Happy New Year. I'll never ever will update my systems less when half year. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: david+phpbugs at midrange dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Ok, I'm going to try and rebuild the Fedora 8 source RPM to avoid the libxml2 bug ... but I'm not all that familiar with how PHP is built ... and could use a pointer or two on what to change on the configure command line. Any suggestions? Previous Comments: [2009-01-02 23:03:29] geoffers+phpbugs at gmail dot com What is the recommended advice for PHP software that relies upon the XML extension? It'd be easier to say that libxml2.7.02.7.2 wasn't supported if it weren't for the fact that I've had at least one user come who had LIBXML_VERSION equal to 20632 with this issue we can't just add a LIBXML_VERSION based workaround, not just because the constant doesn't exist on 4.3.0, but also because it is seemingly isn't reliable. [2009-01-01 20:09:07] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If the Fedora packages do not work then this is a RedHat packaging problem and you should complain to them/open a bug etc. etc. Like I say, in Mandriva we made sure we provided packages that worked because they were compiled with expat. [2009-01-01 19:31:49] alex at peoples dot ru Thanks for advice, but I'm not guru in the Linux, as I haven't cpanel on my server. I tried use 'yum remove' libxml2 and add new, but off course this is stupid and doesn't work. I liked Linux, as the easiest and powerful system, but now, I'm stock. I haven't any idea how I can remove libxml2 and build new system with old one. One idea - change system on Fedora 9, because FC 10 have the same bug with fucking libxml2. Sorry, I was at Data Center 8 hours and I had problem with servers with new system. I don't like updates now... they have bugs every where, and I'm tiered resolve this bugs. Sorry, Have a Happy New Year. I'll never ever will update my systems less when half year. [2008-12-31 15:22:17] scott...@php.net Guys please READ the report, this is a bug in libxml NOT a bug in PHP. [2008-12-31 14:35:13] hougiwro at guerrillamail dot org Why not just fix the bug so that existing installs can pick up a standard update without having to rebuild the program. Not everyone using PHP is necessarily comfortable with recompiling it in order to implement a workaround for a bug. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: geoffers+phpbugs at gmail dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: What is the recommended advice for PHP software that relies upon the XML extension? It'd be easier to say that libxml2.7.02.7.2 wasn't supported if it weren't for the fact that I've had at least one user come who had LIBXML_VERSION equal to 20632 with this issue we can't just add a LIBXML_VERSION based workaround, not just because the constant doesn't exist on 4.3.0, but also because it is seemingly isn't reliable. Previous Comments: [2009-01-01 20:09:07] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If the Fedora packages do not work then this is a RedHat packaging problem and you should complain to them/open a bug etc. etc. Like I say, in Mandriva we made sure we provided packages that worked because they were compiled with expat. [2009-01-01 19:31:49] alex at peoples dot ru Thanks for advice, but I'm not guru in the Linux, as I haven't cpanel on my server. I tried use 'yum remove' libxml2 and add new, but off course this is stupid and doesn't work. I liked Linux, as the easiest and powerful system, but now, I'm stock. I haven't any idea how I can remove libxml2 and build new system with old one. One idea - change system on Fedora 9, because FC 10 have the same bug with fucking libxml2. Sorry, I was at Data Center 8 hours and I had problem with servers with new system. I don't like updates now... they have bugs every where, and I'm tiered resolve this bugs. Sorry, Have a Happy New Year. I'll never ever will update my systems less when half year. [2008-12-31 15:22:17] scott...@php.net Guys please READ the report, this is a bug in libxml NOT a bug in PHP. [2008-12-31 14:35:13] hougiwro at guerrillamail dot org Why not just fix the bug so that existing installs can pick up a standard update without having to rebuild the program. Not everyone using PHP is necessarily comfortable with recompiling it in order to implement a workaround for a bug. [2008-12-31 13:37:17] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If you are on a shared host with a fixed PHP version then really the host should be responsible for deploying a well packaged version of PHP. If they are not doing that it is the host that is at fault and you should raise the issue with them. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: alex at peoples dot ru Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Thanks for advice, but I'm not guru in the Linux, as I haven't cpanel on my server. I tried use 'yum remove' libxml2 and add new, but off course this is stupid and doesn't work. I liked Linux, as the easiest and powerful system, but now, I'm stock. I haven't any idea how I can remove libxml2 and build new system with old one. One idea - change system on Fedora 9, because FC 10 have the same bug with fucking libxml2. Sorry, I was at Data Center 8 hours and I had problem with servers with new system. I don't like updates now... they have bugs every where, and I'm tiered resolve this bugs. Sorry, Have a Happy New Year. I'll never ever will update my systems less when half year. Previous Comments: [2008-12-31 15:22:17] scott...@php.net Guys please READ the report, this is a bug in libxml NOT a bug in PHP. [2008-12-31 14:35:13] hougiwro at guerrillamail dot org Why not just fix the bug so that existing installs can pick up a standard update without having to rebuild the program. Not everyone using PHP is necessarily comfortable with recompiling it in order to implement a workaround for a bug. [2008-12-31 13:37:17] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If you are on a shared host with a fixed PHP version then really the host should be responsible for deploying a well packaged version of PHP. If they are not doing that it is the host that is at fault and you should raise the issue with them. [2008-12-31 00:56:58] mark at mcclusky dot com I understand that there are workarounds to this bug, but for those of us on shared hosts that we can't recompile, this is a colossally frustrating state of affairs. Does anyone in PHP land have any timeline for a fix? [2008-12-29 17:02:44] jeffrey dot roberts at ibsgroup dot org For those as challenged as me at determining how to either downgrade libxml2 or recompile with libexpat while using cPANEL (easyapache), here is a link to the details. I confirm that after recompiling it is a workaround for the problem. http://blog.code-head.com/fixing-libxml-php-bug-and-issues-with-html-entities-libexpat First you will need to find out where libexpat is located on your server, it¡¯s probably here: /usr/lib To find out for sure, open this folder (/usr/lib) and look for the file: libexpat.so If you can¡¯t find it, log in as root via SSH and enter: whereis libexpat.so This should list the folder in which libexpat is located. After all this you will need to compile PHP to use libexpat instead of libxml, so go to: /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/ And create a file and name it ¡°all_php5¡å (no quotes), if there is a file with this name edit it and add these lines to the end of it: ¨Cwith-expat=builtin ¨Cwith-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib (lines start with two dashes ¡°-¡± that are not showing up here for some reason) Remember that depending on where libexpat is located on your server you might need to edit the second line. Now compile Apache and everything should work fine! The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: hougiwro at guerrillamail dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Why not just fix the bug so that existing installs can pick up a standard update without having to rebuild the program. Not everyone using PHP is necessarily comfortable with recompiling it in order to implement a workaround for a bug. Previous Comments: [2008-12-31 13:37:17] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie If you are on a shared host with a fixed PHP version then really the host should be responsible for deploying a well packaged version of PHP. If they are not doing that it is the host that is at fault and you should raise the issue with them. [2008-12-31 00:56:58] mark at mcclusky dot com I understand that there are workarounds to this bug, but for those of us on shared hosts that we can't recompile, this is a colossally frustrating state of affairs. Does anyone in PHP land have any timeline for a fix? [2008-12-29 17:02:44] jeffrey dot roberts at ibsgroup dot org For those as challenged as me at determining how to either downgrade libxml2 or recompile with libexpat while using cPANEL (easyapache), here is a link to the details. I confirm that after recompiling it is a workaround for the problem. http://blog.code-head.com/fixing-libxml-php-bug-and-issues-with-html-entities-libexpat First you will need to find out where libexpat is located on your server, it¡¯s probably here: /usr/lib To find out for sure, open this folder (/usr/lib) and look for the file: libexpat.so If you can¡¯t find it, log in as root via SSH and enter: whereis libexpat.so This should list the folder in which libexpat is located. After all this you will need to compile PHP to use libexpat instead of libxml, so go to: /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/ And create a file and name it ¡°all_php5¡å (no quotes), if there is a file with this name edit it and add these lines to the end of it: ¨Cwith-expat=builtin ¨Cwith-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib (lines start with two dashes ¡°-¡± that are not showing up here for some reason) Remember that depending on where libexpat is located on your server you might need to edit the second line. Now compile Apache and everything should work fine! [2008-12-28 13:37:13] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie While I do not doubt that this is an annoying bug, there are very simple and clear workarounds. I'm really not seeing why everyone is so upset about this. I reported the bug and we fixed the Mandriva package almost immediately with the work around and I'm not aware of any fallout from that change. [2008-12-28 03:55:04] alex at magnet dot ru 4 month!!! This is not serious?! The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: mark at mcclusky dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I understand that there are workarounds to this bug, but for those of us on shared hosts that we can't recompile, this is a colossally frustrating state of affairs. Does anyone in PHP land have any timeline for a fix? Previous Comments: [2008-12-29 17:02:44] jeffrey dot roberts at ibsgroup dot org For those as challenged as me at determining how to either downgrade libxml2 or recompile with libexpat while using cPANEL (easyapache), here is a link to the details. I confirm that after recompiling it is a workaround for the problem. http://blog.code-head.com/fixing-libxml-php-bug-and-issues-with-html-entities-libexpat First you will need to find out where libexpat is located on your server, it¡¯s probably here: /usr/lib To find out for sure, open this folder (/usr/lib) and look for the file: libexpat.so If you can¡¯t find it, log in as root via SSH and enter: whereis libexpat.so This should list the folder in which libexpat is located. After all this you will need to compile PHP to use libexpat instead of libxml, so go to: /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/ And create a file and name it ¡°all_php5¡å (no quotes), if there is a file with this name edit it and add these lines to the end of it: ¨Cwith-expat=builtin ¨Cwith-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib (lines start with two dashes ¡°-¡± that are not showing up here for some reason) Remember that depending on where libexpat is located on your server you might need to edit the second line. Now compile Apache and everything should work fine! [2008-12-28 13:37:13] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie While I do not doubt that this is an annoying bug, there are very simple and clear workarounds. I'm really not seeing why everyone is so upset about this. I reported the bug and we fixed the Mandriva package almost immediately with the work around and I'm not aware of any fallout from that change. [2008-12-28 03:55:04] alex at magnet dot ru 4 month!!! This is not serious?! [2008-12-25 02:41:10] gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp This issue also affects Moodle backup+restore and HotPot module http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-17136 [2008-12-17 15:18:50] valli at icsurselva dot ch Where can I find the libxml2 patch? Does someone have a link to the libxml2 bug reporting tool which describes this issue? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: jeffrey dot roberts at ibsgroup dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: For those as challenged as me at determining how to either downgrade libxml2 or recompile with libexpat while using cPANEL (easyapache), here is a link to the details. I confirm that after recompiling it is a workaround for the problem. http://blog.code-head.com/fixing-libxml-php-bug-and-issues-with-html-entities-libexpat First you will need to find out where libexpat is located on your server, it¡¯s probably here: /usr/lib To find out for sure, open this folder (/usr/lib) and look for the file: libexpat.so If you can¡¯t find it, log in as root via SSH and enter: whereis libexpat.so This should list the folder in which libexpat is located. After all this you will need to compile PHP to use libexpat instead of libxml, so go to: /var/cpanel/easy/apache/rawopts/ And create a file and name it ¡°all_php5¡å (no quotes), if there is a file with this name edit it and add these lines to the end of it: ¨Cwith-expat=builtin ¨Cwith-libexpat-dir=/usr/lib (lines start with two dashes ¡°-¡± that are not showing up here for some reason) Remember that depending on where libexpat is located on your server you might need to edit the second line. Now compile Apache and everything should work fine! Previous Comments: [2008-12-28 13:37:13] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie While I do not doubt that this is an annoying bug, there are very simple and clear workarounds. I'm really not seeing why everyone is so upset about this. I reported the bug and we fixed the Mandriva package almost immediately with the work around and I'm not aware of any fallout from that change. [2008-12-28 03:55:04] alex at magnet dot ru 4 month!!! This is not serious?! [2008-12-25 02:41:10] gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp This issue also affects Moodle backup+restore and HotPot module http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-17136 [2008-12-17 15:18:50] valli at icsurselva dot ch Where can I find the libxml2 patch? Does someone have a link to the libxml2 bug reporting tool which describes this issue? [2008-12-17 00:56:14] rricha...@php.net Does no one pay attention to the comments? The fix for this needs to happen on the libxml2 layer. The next version of libxml2 should resolve this and this bug is being kept open only in case some modification to the extension also needs to occur with the fix. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: alex at magnet dot ru Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: 4 month!!! This is not serious?! Previous Comments: [2008-12-25 02:41:10] gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp This issue also affects Moodle backup+restore and HotPot module http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-17136 [2008-12-17 15:18:50] valli at icsurselva dot ch Where can I find the libxml2 patch? Does someone have a link to the libxml2 bug reporting tool which describes this issue? [2008-12-17 00:56:14] rricha...@php.net Does no one pay attention to the comments? The fix for this needs to happen on the libxml2 layer. The next version of libxml2 should resolve this and this bug is being kept open only in case some modification to the extension also needs to occur with the fix. [2008-12-17 00:49:19] scott...@php.net Recompile with libexpat or downgrade libxml. One of those will sort you out. A change to libxml will be in the next release, though the patch isn't in their repository yet. [2008-12-17 00:09:52] joshua at joshuascott dot net Any update on resolving this issue? All of my web based RSS aggregator sites are broken, I am unable to post using any desktop clients and none of the workarounds seem to work or can't be implemented due to various reasons. Please advise. This bug has been open for a long time and it seems to be affecting a lot of people. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: This issue also affects Moodle backup+restore and HotPot module http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-17136 Previous Comments: [2008-12-17 15:18:50] valli at icsurselva dot ch Where can I find the libxml2 patch? Does someone have a link to the libxml2 bug reporting tool which describes this issue? [2008-12-17 00:56:14] rricha...@php.net Does no one pay attention to the comments? The fix for this needs to happen on the libxml2 layer. The next version of libxml2 should resolve this and this bug is being kept open only in case some modification to the extension also needs to occur with the fix. [2008-12-17 00:49:19] scott...@php.net Recompile with libexpat or downgrade libxml. One of those will sort you out. A change to libxml will be in the next release, though the patch isn't in their repository yet. [2008-12-17 00:09:52] joshua at joshuascott dot net Any update on resolving this issue? All of my web based RSS aggregator sites are broken, I am unable to post using any desktop clients and none of the workarounds seem to work or can't be implemented due to various reasons. Please advise. This bug has been open for a long time and it seems to be affecting a lot of people. [2008-12-14 22:17:37] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has been open for 4 months now. Any chance of this getting fixed anytime soon? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: valli at icsurselva dot ch Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Where can I find the libxml2 patch? Does someone have a link to the libxml2 bug reporting tool which describes this issue? Previous Comments: [2008-12-17 00:56:14] rricha...@php.net Does no one pay attention to the comments? The fix for this needs to happen on the libxml2 layer. The next version of libxml2 should resolve this and this bug is being kept open only in case some modification to the extension also needs to occur with the fix. [2008-12-17 00:49:19] scott...@php.net Recompile with libexpat or downgrade libxml. One of those will sort you out. A change to libxml will be in the next release, though the patch isn't in their repository yet. [2008-12-17 00:09:52] joshua at joshuascott dot net Any update on resolving this issue? All of my web based RSS aggregator sites are broken, I am unable to post using any desktop clients and none of the workarounds seem to work or can't be implemented due to various reasons. Please advise. This bug has been open for a long time and it seems to be affecting a lot of people. [2008-12-14 22:17:37] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has been open for 4 months now. Any chance of this getting fixed anytime soon? [2008-12-07 13:08:43] rolysatch at hotmail dot com i did apply a patch to php 5.2.6 and got this bug with libxml2 fixed, but i just upgraded php to 5.2.7 cli (where i thought this big had been fixed) and i've got the same problem back again with angled brackets being stripped. anyone else upgraded and still got this issue? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: joshua at joshuascott dot net Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Any update on resolving this issue? All of my web based RSS aggregator sites are broken, I am unable to post using any desktop clients and none of the workarounds seem to work or can't be implemented due to various reasons. Please advise. This bug has been open for a long time and it seems to be affecting a lot of people. Previous Comments: [2008-12-14 22:17:37] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has been open for 4 months now. Any chance of this getting fixed anytime soon? [2008-12-07 13:08:43] rolysatch at hotmail dot com i did apply a patch to php 5.2.6 and got this bug with libxml2 fixed, but i just upgraded php to 5.2.7 cli (where i thought this big had been fixed) and i've got the same problem back again with angled brackets being stripped. anyone else upgraded and still got this issue? [2008-12-03 17:46:18] hoffie at gentoo dot org What is the current status of a fix (in contrast to a work around)? This issue breaks lots of web apps (Wordpress as we heard here, Typo3 as we heard in our bug tracker at Gentoo) and considering that the last release of 5.2.x is supposed to be released tomorrow, this sounds rather urgent... Downstream bug for Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249703 (Gentoo users: Please report such bugs to us (as well), especially in case of such library interaction issues) [2008-11-21 15:32:53] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie To build with expat just read my earlier posts on this bug where I've shown how we did this in our recent Mandriva 2009 release. [2008-11-21 15:31:40] ajay12006 at gmail dot com I already have libxml 2.7.2 Can anyone help me how to "build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat."? Any link on how to so it? Thanks. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: alykhanii at yahoo dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: This bug has been open for 4 months now. Any chance of this getting fixed anytime soon? Previous Comments: [2008-12-07 13:08:43] rolysatch at hotmail dot com i did apply a patch to php 5.2.6 and got this bug with libxml2 fixed, but i just upgraded php to 5.2.7 cli (where i thought this big had been fixed) and i've got the same problem back again with angled brackets being stripped. anyone else upgraded and still got this issue? [2008-12-03 17:46:18] hoffie at gentoo dot org What is the current status of a fix (in contrast to a work around)? This issue breaks lots of web apps (Wordpress as we heard here, Typo3 as we heard in our bug tracker at Gentoo) and considering that the last release of 5.2.x is supposed to be released tomorrow, this sounds rather urgent... Downstream bug for Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249703 (Gentoo users: Please report such bugs to us (as well), especially in case of such library interaction issues) [2008-11-21 15:32:53] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie To build with expat just read my earlier posts on this bug where I've shown how we did this in our recent Mandriva 2009 release. [2008-11-21 15:31:40] ajay12006 at gmail dot com I already have libxml 2.7.2 Can anyone help me how to "build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat."? Any link on how to so it? Thanks. [2008-11-20 22:37:34] rcasagraude at interfaces dot fr Confirm : build xml against libexpat workaround this bug The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: rolysatch at hotmail dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: i did apply a patch to php 5.2.6 and got this bug with libxml2 fixed, but i just upgraded php to 5.2.7 cli (where i thought this big had been fixed) and i've got the same problem back again with angled brackets being stripped. anyone else upgraded and still got this issue? Previous Comments: [2008-12-03 17:46:18] hoffie at gentoo dot org What is the current status of a fix (in contrast to a work around)? This issue breaks lots of web apps (Wordpress as we heard here, Typo3 as we heard in our bug tracker at Gentoo) and considering that the last release of 5.2.x is supposed to be released tomorrow, this sounds rather urgent... Downstream bug for Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249703 (Gentoo users: Please report such bugs to us (as well), especially in case of such library interaction issues) [2008-11-21 15:32:53] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie To build with expat just read my earlier posts on this bug where I've shown how we did this in our recent Mandriva 2009 release. [2008-11-21 15:31:40] ajay12006 at gmail dot com I already have libxml 2.7.2 Can anyone help me how to "build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat."? Any link on how to so it? Thanks. [2008-11-20 22:37:34] rcasagraude at interfaces dot fr Confirm : build xml against libexpat workaround this bug [2008-11-05 16:30:35] [EMAIL PROTECTED] just use the example in the manual. Your change simply gets predefined entities working but breaks all other cases. I'm currently looking at getting the change in libxml2 that caused this reverted. The problem stems from the magic needed to emulate expat behavior as its not native in libxml so non-standard use of the libxml sax hooks was needed. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: hoffie at gentoo dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: What is the current status of a fix (in contrast to a work around)? This issue breaks lots of web apps (Wordpress as we heard here, Typo3 as we heard in our bug tracker at Gentoo) and considering that the last release of 5.2.x is supposed to be released tomorrow, this sounds rather urgent... Downstream bug for Gentoo: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249703 (Gentoo users: Please report such bugs to us (as well), especially in case of such library interaction issues) Previous Comments: [2008-11-21 15:32:53] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie To build with expat just read my earlier posts on this bug where I've shown how we did this in our recent Mandriva 2009 release. [2008-11-21 15:31:40] ajay12006 at gmail dot com I already have libxml 2.7.2 Can anyone help me how to "build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat."? Any link on how to so it? Thanks. [2008-11-20 22:37:34] rcasagraude at interfaces dot fr Confirm : build xml against libexpat workaround this bug [2008-11-05 16:30:35] [EMAIL PROTECTED] just use the example in the manual. Your change simply gets predefined entities working but breaks all other cases. I'm currently looking at getting the change in libxml2 that caused this reverted. The problem stems from the magic needed to emulate expat behavior as its not native in libxml so non-standard use of the libxml sax hooks was needed. [2008-11-05 16:13:17] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob, do you have a test case for the regression caused by my test patch, so I can look at that further? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: ajay12006 at gmail dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I already have libxml 2.7.2 Can anyone help me how to "build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat."? Any link on how to so it? Thanks. Previous Comments: [2008-11-20 22:37:34] rcasagraude at interfaces dot fr Confirm : build xml against libexpat workaround this bug [2008-11-05 16:30:35] [EMAIL PROTECTED] just use the example in the manual. Your change simply gets predefined entities working but breaks all other cases. I'm currently looking at getting the change in libxml2 that caused this reverted. The problem stems from the magic needed to emulate expat behavior as its not native in libxml so non-standard use of the libxml sax hooks was needed. [2008-11-05 16:13:17] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob, do you have a test case for the regression caused by my test patch, so I can look at that further? [2008-11-04 21:00:18] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is still being worked on. Currently the only options are to build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat. [2008-11-04 20:35:18] rolysatch at hotmail dot com yes i've been struggling with this issue for some time, has anyone discovered a solution yet? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: rcasagraude at interfaces dot fr Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Confirm : build xml against libexpat workaround this bug Previous Comments: [2008-11-05 16:30:35] [EMAIL PROTECTED] just use the example in the manual. Your change simply gets predefined entities working but breaks all other cases. I'm currently looking at getting the change in libxml2 that caused this reverted. The problem stems from the magic needed to emulate expat behavior as its not native in libxml so non-standard use of the libxml sax hooks was needed. [2008-11-05 16:13:17] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob, do you have a test case for the regression caused by my test patch, so I can look at that further? [2008-11-04 21:00:18] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is still being worked on. Currently the only options are to build PHP with libxml2 <= 2.6.32 or build ext/xml with expat. [2008-11-04 20:35:18] rolysatch at hotmail dot com yes i've been struggling with this issue for some time, has anyone discovered a solution yet? [2008-11-03 23:16:48] hjthring at lavabit dot com any suggestions on how one could go about upgrading cms code to avoid this issue ?? Hayden. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: rolysatch at hotmail dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: yes i've been struggling with this issue for some time, has anyone discovered a solution yet? Previous Comments: [2008-11-03 23:16:48] hjthring at lavabit dot com any suggestions on how one could go about upgrading cms code to avoid this issue ?? Hayden. [2008-10-31 14:45:23] sunil at truesparrow dot com I am also facing the same problem on redhat 5 server.I have php 5.2.6 and libxml 2.7.2 Any updates on the bug? Thanks, Sunil [2008-10-30 18:19:16] phpbugs at hm2k dot org This problem is also documented here... http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/writerbeta/thread/62ad697b-ed19-4b0b-ae6a-32bec06b142b/ [2008-10-25 18:12:57] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has messed up the XMLRPC upload capabilities in Wordpress hopefully a solution is coming soon. [2008-10-24 20:47:08] sanepit at o2 dot pl I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: hjthring at lavabit dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: any suggestions on how one could go about upgrading cms code to avoid this issue ?? Hayden. Previous Comments: [2008-10-31 14:45:23] sunil at truesparrow dot com I am also facing the same problem on redhat 5 server.I have php 5.2.6 and libxml 2.7.2 Any updates on the bug? Thanks, Sunil [2008-10-30 18:19:16] phpbugs at hm2k dot org This problem is also documented here... http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/writerbeta/thread/62ad697b-ed19-4b0b-ae6a-32bec06b142b/ [2008-10-25 18:12:57] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has messed up the XMLRPC upload capabilities in Wordpress hopefully a solution is coming soon. [2008-10-24 20:47:08] sanepit at o2 dot pl I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. [2008-10-22 11:39:48] markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: sunil at truesparrow dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I am also facing the same problem on redhat 5 server.I have php 5.2.6 and libxml 2.7.2 Any updates on the bug? Thanks, Sunil Previous Comments: [2008-10-30 18:19:16] phpbugs at hm2k dot org This problem is also documented here... http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/writerbeta/thread/62ad697b-ed19-4b0b-ae6a-32bec06b142b/ [2008-10-25 18:12:57] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has messed up the XMLRPC upload capabilities in Wordpress hopefully a solution is coming soon. [2008-10-24 20:47:08] sanepit at o2 dot pl I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. [2008-10-22 11:39:48] markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus [2008-10-17 14:08:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing the flag fixes internally defined entities, but breaks the rest of the entity handling. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: phpbugs at hm2k dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: This problem is also documented here... http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/writerbeta/thread/62ad697b-ed19-4b0b-ae6a-32bec06b142b/ Previous Comments: [2008-10-25 18:12:57] alykhanii at yahoo dot com This bug has messed up the XMLRPC upload capabilities in Wordpress hopefully a solution is coming soon. [2008-10-24 20:47:08] sanepit at o2 dot pl I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. [2008-10-22 11:39:48] markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus [2008-10-17 14:08:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing the flag fixes internally defined entities, but breaks the rest of the entity handling. [2008-10-17 13:40:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far as I can tell the only problem here is that libxml2 is bailing in parser.c:xmlParseReference() because the ctxt->wellFormed flag is cleared. It is set to zero by compat.c, which seems simply wrong; xmlCreate*ParserContext initialize it to non-zero. If I apply this patch it works fine: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/php-5.2.6-xmlwformed.patch Rob? The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: alykhanii at yahoo dot com Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: This bug has messed up the XMLRPC upload capabilities in Wordpress hopefully a solution is coming soon. Previous Comments: [2008-10-24 20:47:08] sanepit at o2 dot pl I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. [2008-10-22 11:39:48] markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus [2008-10-17 14:08:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing the flag fixes internally defined entities, but breaks the rest of the entity handling. [2008-10-17 13:40:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far as I can tell the only problem here is that libxml2 is bailing in parser.c:xmlParseReference() because the ctxt->wellFormed flag is cleared. It is set to zero by compat.c, which seems simply wrong; xmlCreate*ParserContext initialize it to non-zero. If I apply this patch it works fine: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/php-5.2.6-xmlwformed.patch Rob? [2008-10-16 14:56:03] mike at kogan dot org Nevermind we got it - libexpat is in and workaround is fine. Thanks again and happy coding! The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: sanepit at o2 dot pl Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I have the same problem on Gentoo with new libxml2-2.6.32 In moodle platform this problem disable to restore courses backup. Previous Comments: [2008-10-22 11:39:48] markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus [2008-10-17 14:08:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing the flag fixes internally defined entities, but breaks the rest of the entity handling. [2008-10-17 13:40:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far as I can tell the only problem here is that libxml2 is bailing in parser.c:xmlParseReference() because the ctxt->wellFormed flag is cleared. It is set to zero by compat.c, which seems simply wrong; xmlCreate*ParserContext initialize it to non-zero. If I apply this patch it works fine: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/php-5.2.6-xmlwformed.patch Rob? [2008-10-16 14:56:03] mike at kogan dot org Nevermind we got it - libexpat is in and workaround is fine. Thanks again and happy coding! [2008-10-16 02:01:00] mike at Kogan dot org Thanks Col - unfortunately after thrashing on this for a day I either have gotten libexpat built in and it hasn't worked, or my efforts to build it into Apache2 have not worked. How can I tell once I've rebuilt apache whether it's in or not? Will it show up on phpinfo? I see libexpat.so on the system and configured apache --with-expat=builtin and tried using the expat on the system but I'm not sure if it's actually getting there. Sorry in advance if this is not the place to ask such a question but googling libexpat has not been fruitful. The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: markus dot gevers at contenit dot de Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Hallo, is there a solution yet? I have the same problem on Fedora Core 9. I also have this problem using libxml2-2.6.32 Can anyone help me? Best regards, Markus Previous Comments: [2008-10-17 14:08:57] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changing the flag fixes internally defined entities, but breaks the rest of the entity handling. [2008-10-17 13:40:27] [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far as I can tell the only problem here is that libxml2 is bailing in parser.c:xmlParseReference() because the ctxt->wellFormed flag is cleared. It is set to zero by compat.c, which seems simply wrong; xmlCreate*ParserContext initialize it to non-zero. If I apply this patch it works fine: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/php-5.2.6-xmlwformed.patch Rob? [2008-10-16 14:56:03] mike at kogan dot org Nevermind we got it - libexpat is in and workaround is fine. Thanks again and happy coding! [2008-10-16 02:01:00] mike at Kogan dot org Thanks Col - unfortunately after thrashing on this for a day I either have gotten libexpat built in and it hasn't worked, or my efforts to build it into Apache2 have not worked. How can I tell once I've rebuilt apache whether it's in or not? Will it show up on phpinfo? I see libexpat.so on the system and configured apache --with-expat=builtin and tried using the expat on the system but I'm not sure if it's actually getting there. Sorry in advance if this is not the place to ask such a question but googling libexpat has not been fruitful. [2008-10-15 09:02:54] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Mike, it's fairly easy to recompile PHP with the libexpat library for the legacy XML parsing functions while keeping libxml2 for the more modern ones. We did that in the Mandriva package for our 2009.0 release after I reported the bug. See the SPEC file here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?revision=291141&view=markup The particular change that worked around it is here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?r1=278891&r2=281822 I'm sure you can work out how to get the needed patch that is mentioned by navigating the webcvs :) You should be able to use this to recompile the CentOS PHP package accordingly. Hope this helps. Col The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: mike at kogan dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Nevermind we got it - libexpat is in and workaround is fine. Thanks again and happy coding! Previous Comments: [2008-10-16 02:01:00] mike at Kogan dot org Thanks Col - unfortunately after thrashing on this for a day I either have gotten libexpat built in and it hasn't worked, or my efforts to build it into Apache2 have not worked. How can I tell once I've rebuilt apache whether it's in or not? Will it show up on phpinfo? I see libexpat.so on the system and configured apache --with-expat=builtin and tried using the expat on the system but I'm not sure if it's actually getting there. Sorry in advance if this is not the place to ask such a question but googling libexpat has not been fruitful. [2008-10-15 09:02:54] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Mike, it's fairly easy to recompile PHP with the libexpat library for the legacy XML parsing functions while keeping libxml2 for the more modern ones. We did that in the Mandriva package for our 2009.0 release after I reported the bug. See the SPEC file here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?revision=291141&view=markup The particular change that worked around it is here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?r1=278891&r2=281822 I'm sure you can work out how to get the needed patch that is mentioned by navigating the webcvs :) You should be able to use this to recompile the CentOS PHP package accordingly. Hope this helps. Col [2008-10-15 00:04:01] mike at kogan dot org I also have run into this - we had some legacy php code on the xml_parser that was fine on some centos 4 servers with php4 and 5 running apache 1.3. We've been debugging this failure for a day now on our new centos 5 server running php5 and libxml2 2.7.2, and we confirm the same problem. The characterHandler is not called for the known entities so scripts depending on this (rss feed converters etc) emit flawed html. I agree there's much better ways to parse XML but this is legacy stuff thats somewhat pervasive and we didn;t choose what these folks used for their apps. I'd love to rebuild their server with an older libxml2 but am not sure how to go backwards without causing some other problem. Customer has cpanel/whm and all that hooey and I'd rather not create a mess on their new server. Hope ya'll fix this soon as it is an issue on the cpanel folks that have 2.7.2 in their stable branch for centos 5 that is being spread by their updater. If someone can give me a pointer that a straightup build and install of the old release code wont make things worse I'll take a crack at moving their server back. [2008-10-08 09:50:16] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Yes, I suspect that the comments left by ptn at post dot cz are incorrect when they say it is fixed in libxml. rrichards has given a very complete explanation of the problem and it is more fundamental than a simple bug. Compiling PHP with libexpat is the correct workaround for now. [2008-10-08 09:18:54] uraes at hot dot ee just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: mike at Kogan dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Thanks Col - unfortunately after thrashing on this for a day I either have gotten libexpat built in and it hasn't worked, or my efforts to build it into Apache2 have not worked. How can I tell once I've rebuilt apache whether it's in or not? Will it show up on phpinfo? I see libexpat.so on the system and configured apache --with-expat=builtin and tried using the expat on the system but I'm not sure if it's actually getting there. Sorry in advance if this is not the place to ask such a question but googling libexpat has not been fruitful. Previous Comments: [2008-10-15 09:02:54] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Mike, it's fairly easy to recompile PHP with the libexpat library for the legacy XML parsing functions while keeping libxml2 for the more modern ones. We did that in the Mandriva package for our 2009.0 release after I reported the bug. See the SPEC file here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?revision=291141&view=markup The particular change that worked around it is here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?r1=278891&r2=281822 I'm sure you can work out how to get the needed patch that is mentioned by navigating the webcvs :) You should be able to use this to recompile the CentOS PHP package accordingly. Hope this helps. Col [2008-10-15 00:04:01] mike at kogan dot org I also have run into this - we had some legacy php code on the xml_parser that was fine on some centos 4 servers with php4 and 5 running apache 1.3. We've been debugging this failure for a day now on our new centos 5 server running php5 and libxml2 2.7.2, and we confirm the same problem. The characterHandler is not called for the known entities so scripts depending on this (rss feed converters etc) emit flawed html. I agree there's much better ways to parse XML but this is legacy stuff thats somewhat pervasive and we didn;t choose what these folks used for their apps. I'd love to rebuild their server with an older libxml2 but am not sure how to go backwards without causing some other problem. Customer has cpanel/whm and all that hooey and I'd rather not create a mess on their new server. Hope ya'll fix this soon as it is an issue on the cpanel folks that have 2.7.2 in their stable branch for centos 5 that is being spread by their updater. If someone can give me a pointer that a straightup build and install of the old release code wont make things worse I'll take a crack at moving their server back. [2008-10-08 09:50:16] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Yes, I suspect that the comments left by ptn at post dot cz are incorrect when they say it is fixed in libxml. rrichards has given a very complete explanation of the problem and it is more fundamental than a simple bug. Compiling PHP with libexpat is the correct workaround for now. [2008-10-08 09:18:54] uraes at hot dot ee just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" [2008-10-07 11:19:33] ptn at post dot cz this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Mike, it's fairly easy to recompile PHP with the libexpat library for the legacy XML parsing functions while keeping libxml2 for the more modern ones. We did that in the Mandriva package for our 2009.0 release after I reported the bug. See the SPEC file here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?revision=291141&view=markup The particular change that worked around it is here: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/updates/2009.0/php/current/SPECS/php.spec?r1=278891&r2=281822 I'm sure you can work out how to get the needed patch that is mentioned by navigating the webcvs :) You should be able to use this to recompile the CentOS PHP package accordingly. Hope this helps. Col Previous Comments: [2008-10-15 00:04:01] mike at kogan dot org I also have run into this - we had some legacy php code on the xml_parser that was fine on some centos 4 servers with php4 and 5 running apache 1.3. We've been debugging this failure for a day now on our new centos 5 server running php5 and libxml2 2.7.2, and we confirm the same problem. The characterHandler is not called for the known entities so scripts depending on this (rss feed converters etc) emit flawed html. I agree there's much better ways to parse XML but this is legacy stuff thats somewhat pervasive and we didn;t choose what these folks used for their apps. I'd love to rebuild their server with an older libxml2 but am not sure how to go backwards without causing some other problem. Customer has cpanel/whm and all that hooey and I'd rather not create a mess on their new server. Hope ya'll fix this soon as it is an issue on the cpanel folks that have 2.7.2 in their stable branch for centos 5 that is being spread by their updater. If someone can give me a pointer that a straightup build and install of the old release code wont make things worse I'll take a crack at moving their server back. [2008-10-08 09:50:16] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Yes, I suspect that the comments left by ptn at post dot cz are incorrect when they say it is fixed in libxml. rrichards has given a very complete explanation of the problem and it is more fundamental than a simple bug. Compiling PHP with libexpat is the correct workaround for now. [2008-10-08 09:18:54] uraes at hot dot ee just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" [2008-10-07 11:19:33] ptn at post dot cz this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 [2008-09-09 23:06:00] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Comments by Daniel Veillard on the libxml ML: The only thing I can think of is that libxml2 doesn't anymore ask though a SAX callback when looking for entities references if they are in the predefined set. This comes in essence by an old decision from the XML working group stating that user definition for those 5 entities could not override the default predefined ones. So I guess that change is logical. Now what is done on top of SAX to result in that bug, I don't really know :-\ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: mike at kogan dot org Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: I also have run into this - we had some legacy php code on the xml_parser that was fine on some centos 4 servers with php4 and 5 running apache 1.3. We've been debugging this failure for a day now on our new centos 5 server running php5 and libxml2 2.7.2, and we confirm the same problem. The characterHandler is not called for the known entities so scripts depending on this (rss feed converters etc) emit flawed html. I agree there's much better ways to parse XML but this is legacy stuff thats somewhat pervasive and we didn;t choose what these folks used for their apps. I'd love to rebuild their server with an older libxml2 but am not sure how to go backwards without causing some other problem. Customer has cpanel/whm and all that hooey and I'd rather not create a mess on their new server. Hope ya'll fix this soon as it is an issue on the cpanel folks that have 2.7.2 in their stable branch for centos 5 that is being spread by their updater. If someone can give me a pointer that a straightup build and install of the old release code wont make things worse I'll take a crack at moving their server back. Previous Comments: [2008-10-08 09:50:16] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Yes, I suspect that the comments left by ptn at post dot cz are incorrect when they say it is fixed in libxml. rrichards has given a very complete explanation of the problem and it is more fundamental than a simple bug. Compiling PHP with libexpat is the correct workaround for now. [2008-10-08 09:18:54] uraes at hot dot ee just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" [2008-10-07 11:19:33] ptn at post dot cz this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 [2008-09-09 23:06:00] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Comments by Daniel Veillard on the libxml ML: The only thing I can think of is that libxml2 doesn't anymore ask though a SAX callback when looking for entities references if they are in the predefined set. This comes in essence by an old decision from the XML working group stating that user definition for those 5 entities could not override the default predefined ones. So I guess that change is logical. Now what is done on top of SAX to result in that bug, I don't really know :-\ [2008-09-06 15:43:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assigned to the maintainer (Rob, don't forget to change status too when you assign something to yourself :) The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/45996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: Yes, I suspect that the comments left by ptn at post dot cz are incorrect when they say it is fixed in libxml. rrichards has given a very complete explanation of the problem and it is more fundamental than a simple bug. Compiling PHP with libexpat is the correct workaround for now. Previous Comments: [2008-10-08 09:18:54] uraes at hot dot ee just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" [2008-10-07 11:19:33] ptn at post dot cz this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 [2008-09-09 23:06:00] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Comments by Daniel Veillard on the libxml ML: The only thing I can think of is that libxml2 doesn't anymore ask though a SAX callback when looking for entities references if they are in the predefined set. This comes in essence by an old decision from the XML working group stating that user definition for those 5 entities could not override the default predefined ones. So I guess that change is logical. Now what is done on top of SAX to result in that bug, I don't really know :-\ [2008-09-06 15:43:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assigned to the maintainer (Rob, don't forget to change status too when you assign something to yourself :) [2008-09-04 17:29:21] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Description: With libxml2 2.7.1, When using the expat type xml parsing routines in PHP, the characater data seems to silently drop any encoded text e.g. > < and friends. Please see Mandriva bug for details: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43486 And also please note the thread on the libxml mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general/14610 And most notably the reply to the above thread: Can you report this as a PHP bug? It looks like some really old hack code in the PHP extension in order to mimic some specific expat functionality. The behavior change you see though resulting from a code changes in libxml2 is really due to the hackish code in the extension doing things it wasnt meant to be doing. Reproduce code: --- Please see this code: https://qa.mandriva.com/attachment.cgi?id=10757 Expected result: < foo > wibble < /foo > Actual result: -- foo wibble /foo -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: uraes at hot dot ee Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: just tried libxml2-2.7.2 and 5.2.6-pl7-gentoo and it is still broken: Example PHP code: Google "; $parser = xml_parser_create('UTF-8'); xml_parser_set_option($parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, 1); xml_parse_into_struct($parser, $data, $vals, $index); xml_parser_free($parser); echo ""; echo "Original XML:".htmlentities($data); echo "Parsed struct:"; print_r($vals); ?> .. parsed result is "a href=http://www.google.com>Google/a>" Previous Comments: [2008-10-07 11:19:33] ptn at post dot cz this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 [2008-09-09 23:06:00] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Comments by Daniel Veillard on the libxml ML: The only thing I can think of is that libxml2 doesn't anymore ask though a SAX callback when looking for entities references if they are in the predefined set. This comes in essence by an old decision from the XML working group stating that user definition for those 5 entities could not override the default predefined ones. So I guess that change is logical. Now what is done on top of SAX to result in that bug, I don't really know :-\ [2008-09-06 15:43:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assigned to the maintainer (Rob, don't forget to change status too when you assign something to yourself :) [2008-09-04 17:29:21] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Description: With libxml2 2.7.1, When using the expat type xml parsing routines in PHP, the characater data seems to silently drop any encoded text e.g. > < and friends. Please see Mandriva bug for details: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43486 And also please note the thread on the libxml mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general/14610 And most notably the reply to the above thread: Can you report this as a PHP bug? It looks like some really old hack code in the PHP extension in order to mimic some specific expat functionality. The behavior change you see though resulting from a code changes in libxml2 is really due to the hackish code in the extension doing things it wasnt meant to be doing. Reproduce code: --- Please see this code: https://qa.mandriva.com/attachment.cgi?id=10757 Expected result: < foo > wibble < /foo > Actual result: -- foo wibble /foo -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
#45996 [Com]: libxml2 2.7.1 causes breakage with character data in xml_parse()
ID: 45996 Comment by: ptn at post dot cz Reported By: phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Status: Assigned Bug Type: XML related Operating System: Mandriva Linux PHP Version: 5.2.6 Assigned To: rrichards New Comment: this bug seems to be fixed in libxm2-2.7.2 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2?view=revision&revision=3798 Previous Comments: [2008-09-09 23:06:00] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Comments by Daniel Veillard on the libxml ML: The only thing I can think of is that libxml2 doesn't anymore ask though a SAX callback when looking for entities references if they are in the predefined set. This comes in essence by an old decision from the XML working group stating that user definition for those 5 entities could not override the default predefined ones. So I guess that change is logical. Now what is done on top of SAX to result in that bug, I don't really know :-\ [2008-09-06 15:43:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assigned to the maintainer (Rob, don't forget to change status too when you assign something to yourself :) [2008-09-04 17:29:21] phpbugs at colin dot guthr dot ie Description: With libxml2 2.7.1, When using the expat type xml parsing routines in PHP, the characater data seems to silently drop any encoded text e.g. > < and friends. Please see Mandriva bug for details: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43486 And also please note the thread on the libxml mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general/14610 And most notably the reply to the above thread: Can you report this as a PHP bug? It looks like some really old hack code in the PHP extension in order to mimic some specific expat functionality. The behavior change you see though resulting from a code changes in libxml2 is really due to the hackish code in the extension doing things it wasnt meant to be doing. Reproduce code: --- Please see this code: https://qa.mandriva.com/attachment.cgi?id=10757 Expected result: < foo > wibble < /foo > Actual result: -- foo wibble /foo -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=45996&edit=1
