On 29 June 2011 01:10, Dirk Schulze <k...@webkit.org> wrote: > > Am 29.06.2011 um 05:42 schrieb TAMURA, Kent: > >> I'm a little negative of developing a new XML parser. I'm afraid that the >> new parser introduces a lot of security/stability problems which existing >> parsers already resolved. > > I feel the same. Writing a new parser from scratch means introducing a lot of > new security bugs, parsing errors and maybe bigger performance lost at the > beginning. Speaking from the SVG side, we fail at least three tests on the > W3C SVG Test Suite because of parsing bugs if libxml2 on MacOS. All of these > bugs are fixed in later versions of libxml2. Updating libxml2 more often on > MacOS would help a lot.
Specifically these test failures are due to a bug with internal entities in libxml2 which was first seen with OS X 10.5.8, so before that it worked. Maybe a new libxml2 version is used in Lion and will fix it, but should a new XML parser come about entities are an area that should work even though little SVG files out there actually seem to use it in practice. Cheers, Rob. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
