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This issue is definitely not a reason to stop rolling out RC's nor betas.
Enabling the XML extensions by default is the right decision because this is an important technology which almost every PHP user will need.
I do think it's a good idea though to have a --disable switch that works and disables all of the XML extensions.
IMO, we shouldn't have --disable-simplexml and --disable-xml. We should just have the latter and make it disable/enable all the three XML extensions. There is no real reason not to enable them all. The memory consumption is minimal and once one of them is enabled libXML2 is linked.
I don't see any good coming out of reverting back to expat. I think one of the most important "features'" in PHP 5 will be the much better XML support and this is really something PHP users are looking for.
I asked (and so did someone else) if there is support for XSLT scheme handlers in PHP5. Nobody answered. It was possible in PHP4 with Sablotron. Now the Sablotron PHP extension is gone. So IMHO a very essential XML feature is missing in PHP5.
-- Adam
Andi
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