Re: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.7.1

[Colin Guthrie <gmane colin guthr ie>]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Python serialization code was broken in 2.7.0 so here is a new release
> with a cleanup of that code, even more isolation of the new buffer type
> from user code and a couple of fixes:
>
> * Portability fix:
>  - Borland C fix (Moritz Both)
> * Bug fixes:
>  - python serialization wrappers
>  - XPath QName corner case handking and leaks (Martin)
> * Improvement:
>  - extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees
> * Cleanup:
>  - python serialization wrappers
>
>   I hope that one is a good one !

Not sure if this is the right avenue to report this bug but I'm having 
some fairly serious regressions.

I've not tested 2.7.0, but 2.7.1 is definitely affected.

I noticed the problem in PHP parsing of XML, and have submitted a 
bugreport and a test case to the following bug:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43486

Essentially, when using PHPs older parsing functions (which I thought 
were built on expat rather than libxml2 but it seems not), escaped 
entities in cdata are completely ignored. i.e. > < etc.

See the attachment on the above bug for a test case which requires PHP 
to be installed.

Hopefully someone can shed some light on the situation.

Col

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