xml php extension with libxml 2.7.2 bug

[shinji257]

This is an upstream bug with either libxml2 or php. Here are some bug reports to chew on. In the meantime I've recompiled the xml extension with support for expat (natively). It is a simple replacement that changes the parser being used. The bug is that it tends to strip out the < and > characters for input. In wordpress this affects the xml-rpc interface.

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7771
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46138

http://techtites.com/2009/01/14/fix-...ng-tags-issue/

Anyways if you want the modified xml extension then let me know. I used expat package version 2.0.1-1 so make sure that is installed if you use it. Just add a line in the php.ini file to reference it and remove (or comment out) the old xml.so entry.

Oh and examples...

With libxml2
http://router.elite-systems.org:8080/2009/02/blah/

With expat
http://router.elite-systems.org:8080/2009/02/blah-2/

EDIT: The last bug report indicates that it will be fixed with the next php release and with libxml-2.7.3. Note that neither are released... yet.

EDIT: As of today this appears to be a non-issue. I just tested using the stock xml.so file with Windows Live Writer and the XML-RPC posting worked fine.