[Tclxml-users] 2.4 broken

[Chad T. <ch...@zu...>]

I am using tclxml and tcldom 2.4 straight out of the latest activestate 
distro on windows and it seems very very broken.  I cant upgrade to 2.5 
because I dont have a commercial compiler on my windows install (I have 
mingw/msys but there seems to be no makefiles for it).

Sadly it has also broken my little app I was developing which was 
working fine on 2.0.

There seems to be so many things wrong I dont know where to begin. 
 Firstly my package includes are as follow:

    package require xml 2.4   
    package require dom 2.4

and my usual parse line:

    ::dom::DOMImplementation parse $_xml -chunksize 10 -progresscommand 
{progress_counter}

just breaks completely with the message:

    bad option "....the xml source!!!....": must be -baseuri or external 
entity command...


I tried to make sense of all the changes since 2.0 but am honestly 
struggling.  How can I go about just using the thing as normal like before?

I tried using the expat library and then also the libxml2 with 
::dom::libxml2::parse and they get a lot further but then complain 
saying basic things like removeNode are not implemented!  

Have I gone backwards in version?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chad.