Re: [xml] xml1 bug report

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 08:46:50AM +0900, Eungkyu Song wrote:
> libxml1 have a very big problem.
>
> It write almost charactor > 0x80 in utf8 encoding as &#xxx;, but this is
> very bad feature. Because it is NOT ISO/IEC 10646 charactor but just
> utf8 encoded charactor. So, many xml parsor try to translate it to
> ISO/IEC 10646 charactor, and cannot parse correctly.
> "Raw output" is much better way then this clumsy way.
>
> I always uses charactors > 0x80, and I can't use any xml document
> from libxml1 cause of this problem.

  Libxml1 is not proper for handling utf8 content. libxml1 is not proper
at all for XML processing actually.

> Although development focus is moved to libxml2, I think this problem
> must be fixed. because many program uses libxml1.

  Well use the latest version and use the xmlUseNewParser(1) new call
to use a backported parser from the 2.x series.

> please fix this bug.
> (I think fixing this is not very hard.)

  it is very hard because a lot of apps rely now on the old broken
behaviour. Use the switch indicated that's the only sane way I found
to avoid a terrible mess.

Daniel

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