Re: [xml] Entering freeze for release of libxml2-2.9.9

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:12:13 +0100
Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de> wrote:

> On 23/11/2018 22:38, Nick Wellnhofer wrote:
> > On 23/11/2018 20:51, Shlomi Fish wrote:  
> > > I am getting a failure in one of the tests of
> > > https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-LibXML - it works fine with 2.9.8:  
> >
> > Can you check if it's caused by one of the following commits?  
>
> Nevermind, it's this commit:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/bfec41b3de1cbd35e547b57c80ae3a5101f8891c
>
> It seems that XML::LibXML implements its own workaround for 
> xmlTextReaderNextSibling only being supported on preparsed documents:
>
> https://github.com/shlomif/perl-XML-LibXML/blob/master/LibXML.xs#L8667
>
> The function now claims to work without preparsed documents, so the
> workaround isn't used. But apparently there's problem with the commit. I'm
> CC'ing the author. If we can't get this fixed, let's revert.
>
> Nick

thanks for investigating!

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