Re: [xml] structured error from xmlXPathCompile

[Petr Pajas <pajas ufal ms mff cuni cz>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:15:54PM +0100, Petr Pajas wrote:
> > Hi Daniel, All,
> >
> > In 2.6.2, xmlXPathCompile(comp) doesn't provide exact position of
> > compilation failure neither to fprintf nor to a structured handler.
> > Used to work with 2.5.x:
> > XPath error : Invalid expression
> > foo::bar
> >    ^
> >
> > On the other hand, I can get full info with xmlXPathEvalExpr() or
> > xmlXPathEval(). In 2.5.x, all these functions used to produce same
> > error message. Is it a bug in xmlXPathCompile?
>
>   Hum, prossible. If the information can be carried by xmlXPathEval()
> then xmlXPathCompile() ought to provide them too.
>
> Can you make a bugzilla entry where you list all the weirdness you found
> in the new API, that would help.

Don't know of other oddities so far, but I'm just at the very
beginning of porting to the new API. I made an entry for this one,
though, before it gets out of my mind.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126793

BTW, (unrelated) this patch for valid.c I posted few days ago maybe
got overlooked?

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-November/msg00098.html

Thanks,

-- Petr