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Author : Daniel Veillard
Date : 2000-06-30 18:39:56
Hash : d83eb821
Message : more cleanup of the HTML parser to force it to not bypass SAX, Daniel. Ready for 2.1.1 it seems

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <title>Upgrading libxml client code from 1.x to 2.x</title>
  <meta name="GENERATOR" content="amaya V2.1">
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<h1 align="center">Upgrading libxml client code from 1.x to 2.x</h1>

<h2>Incompatible changes:</h2>

<p>Version 2 of libxml is the first version introducing serious backward
incompatible changes. The main goals were:</p>
<ul>
  <li>a general cleanup. A number of mistakes inherited from the very early
    versions couldn't be changed due to compatibility constraints. Example the
    "childs" element in the nodes.</li>
  <li>Uniformization of the various nodes, at least for their header and link
    parts (doc, parent, children, prev, next), the goal is a simpler
    programming model and simplifying the task of the DOM implementors.</li>
  <li>better conformances to the XML specification, for example version 1.x
    had an heuristic to try to detect ignorable white spaces. As a result the
    SAX event generated were ignorableWhitespace() while the spec requires
    character() in that case. This also mean that a number of DOM node
    containing blank text may populate the DOM tree which were not present
    before.</li>
</ul>

<h2>How to fix libxml-1.x code:</h2>

<p>So client code of libxml designed to run with version 1.x may have to be
changed to compile against version 2.x of libxml. Here is a list of changes
that I have collected, they may not be sufficient, so in case you find other
change which are required, <a href="mailto:Daniel.

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