Re: [xml] PATCH: Macintosh carbon library changes.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:23:22PM -0700, Johnson, Cameron wrote:
> I have posted this message before however the function was not fully
> internationalized for all locales I have made changes to my new function
> to reflect those changes.
>
> I found that I needed libxml2 to work on the Macintosh in Carbon, not
> just in OS X. The product did not work correctly without making changes
> to the source code.  The problem was how file paths were treated. In a
> Mac OS X only application, the file paths were POSIX and so it worked
> correctly with libxml. Within a Carbon application the file paths used
> the Mac file system (A colon is used as the separator).  Libxml
> internally depends on a POSIX style path. 
>
> My solution was to change the path to a Mac style path just before the
> file path is used when calling file IO functionality.

[...]
> Function: xmlSysIDExists
> Line 3085: add 6 lines
>       #ifdef CONVERT_TO_MAC_PATHS
>       path = ConvertPosixToMac(path);
>       #endif
>
>    ret = stat(path, &info);

  Sorry that form of description of changes is not reliable enough,
submit a patch done with patch -c or patch -p. This utility exists
on OS X for sure !
  That's something I asked for in my reply to you previous mail,
and I really need this to process your request.

Daniel

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