RE: [xml] adding "void *private" member to the struct xmlNs

["Igor Zlatkovic" <izlatkovic daenet de>]

Ho there,

In order to prevent a myriad of problems which would certainly come,
please try to avoid using C++ keywords when naming variables :-)

Ciao
Igor

> Hi, Daniel!
> 
> This question was discussed some time ago but I could not understand
> do we have any agreement or not. And  I would like to raise it again
> because it looks like I need this functionality too :)
> So the question is: can we add "void* private" member to the 
> "struct xmlNs"?
> This pointer will be used by application to store application 
> specific data
> and LibXML will simply always ignore it.
> There were two suggestions:
>     1) make struct xmlNs  similar to structures for other 
> node types and put
>     "void * private" on the second place (adv.: simplicity 
> and following
>     standard; dis. : this breaks binary compatibility)
>     2) add "void* private" to the end of struct xmlNs (adv.: binary 
> compatible;
>     dis.: "special case" for applications)
> As far as I can understand, we could not go with option 1) because of 
> binary
> compatibility. I would like to find out, can the implement option 2) 
>  (it's ugly
> but it gives me what I want :) ).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aleksey