Re: [Tclxml-users] 2.4 broken

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Chad,

Unfortunately, it would seem that you're caught between
the inadequacies of an earlier version and the differences
between implementations.

First, the good news:  TclDOM/libxml2 v2.6 has all of the
basic missing methods and options (such as 'removeNode')
implemented.  In fact, the TclDOM CVS HEAD has those
changes committed (in the CVS it is still called "2.5",
but I'm working on the v2.6 release right now and will
not commit the version number change until that it
complete).

Second, the parse options for TclDOM/tcl have not been
implemented for TclDOM/libxml2.  You should file a bug
report on that.

Last, the bad news is that I have not been able to put
together an effective build system under Windows
so I can't generate binaries for that platform (any help
from Windows gurus would be appreciated!).  Your best
bet right now is TclDevKit, currently in beta release,
which does include more recent binaries for TclDOM/libxml2.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

Chad Thatcher wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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