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Why did ez choose to implement their own XML parser?

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Srinivas Rao

Wednesday 30 July 2003 10:01:47 pm

Hi all,

Why did ez choose to implement their own XML parser?

--vasu

Bård Farstad

Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:35:58 pm

We used to use libxml. But this parser had severe memory leaks at the time and was not working in a production environment. It also had a hard time parsing some very valid XML files.

We then made an extension to PHP for supporting the QT, qdom, C++ XML parser. This worked well, however people had a hard time installing this.

So to make eZ publish simpler to install we made an XML parser which is bundled with eZ publish.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc