Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.4.21

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:38:16PM -0700, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> > But I think we can start relaxing the constraints w.r.t. adding API 
>
> Well, in this case I have a request :) First let me explain the reason 
> why I need this.
> The problem I have in XML Security Library is that I need to read not 
> only XML files
> but binary files as well (for example, when I need to sign or encrypt a 
> plain vanilla
> binary data). The XML data input callbacks used by LibXML could not be 
> used for
> reading binary data because one can decide to do some special processing 
> (like
> automatic gzip) for XML files. And this processing should not be done 
> for binary files.
> The solution is to have custom handlers for processing binary files as 
> it is done for XML files.
> The only problem I have is that I am lazy and I do not want to duplicate 
> 10+ static functions
> defined in xmlIO.c :) And this is bad from code-reuse point of view.
> So my request is: can we remove word "static" from the following 
> functions in xmlIO.c and
> copy the declarations to xmlIO.h?
>
>     xmlFileMatch
>     xmlFileOpen
>     xmlFileRead
>     xmlFileClose
>
>     xmlIOHTTPMatch
>     xmlIOHTTPOpen
>     xmlIOHTTPRead
>     xmlIOHTTPClose
>    
>     xmlIOFTPMatch
>     xmlIOFTPOpen
>     xmlIOFTPRead
>     xmlIOFTPClose
>
>     /* I do not need this but for completeness probably these functions
>      should be "public" too */
>     xmlGzfileMatch
>     xmlGzfileOpen
>     xmlGzfileRead
>     xmlGzfileClose
>
> The patch is simple and I'll prepare it as soon as soon as everybody 
> agree that it could be done.

  Fine by me. I updated the files AUTHORS and HACKING to give you right
to commit directly on the gnome-xml module, it is now clear that you have
acquired a good knowledge of the library internals.
  Check with Igor and the Windows makefiles since exproting those can
have side effects.
  Go ahead. I would also appreciate is you can help share a bit of the
bug handling load if you have time too,

Daniel

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