Here's a script that tests for Josh's described bug in Expat: http://treebeard.liblime.com/ctf/expat-marc-test.pl
It passes my testing, but his description of the failure case is only vaguely described as "sometimes causes the entire record to be destroyed." Anyone come up with a failure case? Clay On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Chris Cormack <[email protected]>wrote: > Here we go > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl4lib/2006/05/msg2369.html > > You might even be able to find those files somewhere on your servers :-) > > Chris > > 2010/11/12 Clay Fouts <[email protected]>: > > Hi, all. > > Can anyone point me to documentation about why Expat is considered > > incompatible with Koha (and I'm assuming MARC::File::XML). I know there > are > > dire warnings against such, but what are the test cases where it fails? > > Expat is considerably faster than the LibXML implementation, and it would > be > > a shame if we were continuing to avoid using it without due cause. I've > been > > unable to detect issues with it in my anecdotal test cases thus far. > > Thank you, > > Clay > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > >
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