[PHPTAL] bugs

Wed May 17 10:39:08 CEST 2006

Laurent Bedubourg wrote:
> [..]
> 
> I just corrected the fo:block problem in the latest SVN trunk.
> 
> I also slightly modified the XML parser so it will accept :
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
>  [
>  <!ENTITY include SYSTEM "/extras/scn.ent">
>  <!ENTITY frac14 "&#188;">
>   ]>
> <html>
> </html>
> 

Nice ! thanks - so i do a mv mypatch /dev/null :)

> [...]>
> 
> At the time PHPTAL for PHP5 was written, the libxml2 wrapper suffered
> from many little bugs which made it unusable for the project.
> 
> Anyway, I am not sure to want the PHPTAL parser to parse non well formed
> documents :)

well i don't have any need for that feature too :)
> 
> 
>>Any plans to use a standard parser some day?
> 
> 
> Maybe in a future release. I don't really have the time to play with
> libxml2 and ensure the new parser pass all test units. I am not sure
> that libxml2 is shipped with every PHP binaries too.
> 
I think it's builtin into standard php5+ now (at least my debian and
win boxes didn't require any manual update).
Astonishing enough - it seems to work quite well:)

Thanks again
Michael