Re: [xml] empty tag

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:59:50AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:44:14PM -0400, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:03:12PM -0400, Jean-Francois Dupont-Viel (QA/EMC) wrote:
> > > Ok it seems to work now. I guess the problem was between my two ears...
> >
> >   using the global variables to change contextual behaviour is a bad idea
> > that's why I try to deprecate them and suggest people to use the new APIs
> > which are easier to maintain in the long term,
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a full API cleanup and call that
> libxml3 ?

  I managed to get rid of libxml v1 in Fedora only now, 5 years later.
I'm not sure this exercise will bring anything positive, people will just 
continue to use libxml2 rather than fixing the couple of problems in their
apps. I will just have double burden as a maintainer upstream and at the
distro level.

Daniel

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