[xml] Re: moving code from MacOS 9 to MacOS X

[David Gatwood <dgatwood mac com>]

On Mar 31, 2006, stefano marchese sinedita it wrote:

> ... hi everybody,
>
> I wonder of anybody can help to try to solve the following strange
> problem.
>
> I developed my xml parser on MacOS 9 and now I am trying moving this
> application to MacOS X. My code parse XML files using xmlParseFile 
> () and
> xmlDocGetRootElement() APIs.
> Then I test the "name" an the "type" content of each xmlNodePtr.
>
> On MacOS 9 these fields are always right.
>
> On MacOS X the "name" is right but the "type" is always 0.
>
> Does anybody have an idea to try to solve this "unwanted" situation.

I've never seen this behavior.  Are you using the libxml that ships  
with Mac OS X
or are you compiling your own?

This almost sounds like what could happen if the header is mismatched  
with the
one used to build libxml, i.e. if the data structure size/alignment  
changed on you
or something.


David