Thanks again Dan for giving me the heads up that 0.6.0 doesn't include libxml2.
I presume that when Artem had problems compiling, he found some issue with the win32 distribution at http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/ Any idea what the problem was. I *might* be able to persuade a colleague to take a look - if I can just tweak his curiosity enough... Meanwhile I'll find some way to preprocess my entity laden mapfile. Philip 2009/6/6 Dane Springmeyer <[email protected]> > Hey Philip, > > > On Jun 5, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Philip Howarth wrote: > > I expect I'm doing something stupid! Can anyone tell me what it might be? >> My Google searches suggest that this effect is caused when mapnik is not >> built with libxml2 (which seems unlikely in the published distribution.) >> > > Libxml2 (and hence entities) are not available in the win32 binaries. Sorry > about that - it is surely a highly requested feature. > > The Mapnik 0.6.0 release marked the first release where libxml2 (vs. other > parsers mapnik previously used) was switched to be the default - because XML > Entities are so handy. > > Artem, who built the Win32 binaries ran into compilation problems, so the > current parser in the WIN32 binaries is till TinyXML. > > If anyone is up for trying to get (and documenting the steps) to get > libxml2 static libraries build on windows, that might help when we hit the > next release. > > Dane > > > > -- Philip Howarth Cambridge UK email: [email protected] web: www.philip.howarth.name
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