Re: libxml incompatibility

Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:32:25 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
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>   
>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. It looks like libxml is not
>>> reentrant, so for perl you need to use some other XML library. Very
>>> annoying.
>>>
>>>       
>> Ugh! That is worse than a simple library link incompatibility.
>>     
>
> http://www.nabble.com/New-libxml-which-is-reentrant---to18329452.html
>
> Seems to me that Perl (?) is calling functions it is not supposed to call
> - I'm guessing due to assumptions about mismatching lifecycles. The
> parsing functions themselves are supposedly reentrant.
>
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>   

Maybe someone can trace the libxml calls ... not sure how exactly ... 
given Alvaro's example, it doesn't seem likely to me that this is due to 
a call to xmlCleanupParser(), but maybe the perl code invokes by simply 
doing "use XML::LibXML;" calls that for some perverse reason.

My interest wasn't so high that I wanted to spend a lot of time on it. 
If it didn't work I was just going to move on.

cheers

andrew