[xml] libxml-1.7.0 is out, [Was Re: libxml 1.6.2 is hosed]

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Wed Sep 22 1999 - 06:06:57 EDT


On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:45:43PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> Contrary to assurances, it's not binary compatible with libxml 1.4.0.
> A libglade built against 1.4.0 is crashing when run with 1.6.2.
>
> Oh well,

James libglade is using direct access to the xml parsing context
(since I didn't provide wrappers there is no blame here :-) and
that's not something I was expecting I would need to keep as-if
for the binary compatibility. Well SAX need it, so I have changed
back my structures to be 1.4 compliant, since 1.5 and 1.6 have never
been shipped from gnome.org I guess it's the best.

I have generated libxml-1.7, tested it against the CVS libglade
compiled while the libxml and libxml-devel were 1.4, and
test-libglade example.glade
worked again, so I expect the problem to be fixed.
I also checked the old gnorpm and gnumeric, but since they don't
use the SAX interface but the DOM tree they really should not break.

libxml-1.7 is a HUGE improvement over 1.4 which was flawed in
many respects, and I would really like to get an upgrade for
any new Gnome distrib.
Major updates includes:

  - removed memory leaks
  - DTD validation
  - Remote entities fetching (if turned on)

  Let me know if you have any problem with this version, it is
currently only at ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/veillard/ , I will upload it
to the Gnome FTP if I don't get alarms within 24 hours,

Daniel

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