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

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

I added "void *_private;" to the end of "struct xmlNs" and I hope
this will break nobody.

Aleksey.

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 05:43:53PM -0700, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> > 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 :)
> >   
>
> Argh ....
>
> > 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 :) ).
> >   
>
>   then 2) please but make the field name "_private" like on the others
> nodes. It also avoid the C++ reserved name problem.
>
> Daniel