hi all, so we've got this patch to libxml2 2.7.6 in the LibreOffice code base, inherited from OOo. it fixes a definite problem, which is that Windows has a rather low maximum path length restriction, and there is a special trick on NT whereby path names can be prefixed with "\\?\", in which case the maximum length is 32k, which ought to be sufficient even for bloated office suites :) i'll attach the patch to the xmlCanonicPath function. note that i didn't write this and am by no means an expert on either Microsoftean platforms or libxml so maybe it's not the best way to do it. well, the strlen call in there looks superfluous to me. regards, michael
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