From david.durham.jr at gmail.com  Thu Mar  6 23:47:11 2008
From: david.durham.jr at gmail.com (David Durham, Jr.)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:47:11 -0600
Subject: [Expat-discuss] building apache with expat 1.95.8
Message-ID: <fdb5fda0803061447j77dc228dn478cf114a0dcd82d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all, I'm facing the issue described here:

   http://www.dscpl.com.au/wiki/ModPython/Articles/ExpatCausingApacheCrash

I would like to recompile apache with 1.95.8, but I'm not sure how
exactly to do that.  I don't see a --with-expat option in apache
./configure --help.

Any help?

Thanks,
Dave

From dbn.lists at gmail.com  Fri Mar  7 00:38:24 2008
From: dbn.lists at gmail.com (Dan Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:38:24 -0800
Subject: [Expat-discuss] building apache with expat 1.95.8
In-Reply-To: <fdb5fda0803061447j77dc228dn478cf114a0dcd82d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <fdb5fda0803061447j77dc228dn478cf114a0dcd82d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <91705d080803061538y6c140aa5x9904598453a123a3@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Durham, Jr.
<david.durham.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm facing the issue described here:
>
>    http://www.dscpl.com.au/wiki/ModPython/Articles/ExpatCausingApacheCrash
>
>  I would like to recompile apache with 1.95.8, but I'm not sure how
>  exactly to do that.  I don't see a --with-expat option in apache
>  ./configure --help.

This would probably be more appropriate for an apache list, but...

I don't know if this has changed over the years, but in the current
httpd, expat is pulled in by apr-util. So,
`./srclib/apr-util/configure --help' will show you the
--with-expat=DIR option. Options from the top-level are just passed
down, so you can just pass --with-expat=/usr/local or whatever in
addition to your other flags. It should try to find a system expat
installation before falling back to the bundled expat even if you
don't pass any options.

--
Dan

From jose.carlos.pereira at ist.utl.pt  Wed Mar 12 23:51:32 2008
From: jose.carlos.pereira at ist.utl.pt (Carlos Pereira)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:51:32 +0000
Subject: [Expat-discuss] locale: LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL
Message-ID: <47D85E74.30503@ist.utl.pt>

Dear all,
I received a complain that my Expat app does not read
dot-based decimal numbers when locale is set  to a
comma-based country, such as France:

LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL

If I have this:
<element x="1.0" y="1.0"/>
x, y are not understood as proper float numbers, when locale
defines commas for decimal separators. And vice-versa: commas
are not accepted when locale is the default (or presumably locales
such as US).

I think the ideal solution would be: when importing files, accept both
dots and commas, so for example this XML line should be acceptable:

<element x="1.0" y=2,0"/>

Then do all the work in the locale chosen decimal separator. So a US
user would work and export with dots, send the file to his french friend,
who reads the dots and then works with commas, export with commas,
send the file back to the US user who reads the commas without problems.

Is there a simple way to allow simultaneously dots and commas
in the same XML file, with Expat? or at least all dots in one file
and all commas in another, and be able to read both?

is this actually allowed in the XML specification?
Carlos

From nickmacd at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 17:38:45 2008
From: nickmacd at gmail.com (Nick MacDonald)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:38:45 -0400
Subject: [Expat-discuss] locale: LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL
In-Reply-To: <47D85E74.30503@ist.utl.pt>
References: <47D85E74.30503@ist.utl.pt>
Message-ID: <bdcd32c90803130938i5c072ab9x9ec6f0783b725ba1@mail.gmail.com>

Carlos:

Although I have used eXpat, I don't profess to be an expert.  However,
in my limited experience, I can't see how you could encounter the type
of problem you are referring to.  You didn't give any specific error
message, or in fact any definite indication of what component might be
failing, but I can't see how it could be eXpat.  In my experience,
eXpat does NOT interpret the data, it just supplies it to your
program, and you need to make an interpretation.  Accordingly, I
suspect the problem is inside your app and how you use the resulting
data from eXpat, and not with eXpat itself.

Good luck,
  Nick

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Carlos Pereira
<jose.carlos.pereira at ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> Dear all,
>  I received a complain that my Expat app does not read
>  dot-based decimal numbers when locale is set  to a
>  comma-based country, such as France:
>
>  LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL
>
>  If I have this:
>  <element x="1.0" y="1.0"/>
>  x, y are not understood as proper float numbers, when locale
>  defines commas for decimal separators. And vice-versa: commas
>  are not accepted when locale is the default (or presumably locales
>  such as US).
>
>  I think the ideal solution would be: when importing files, accept both
>  dots and commas, so for example this XML line should be acceptable:
>
>  <element x="1.0" y=2,0"/>
>
>  Then do all the work in the locale chosen decimal separator. So a US
>  user would work and export with dots, send the file to his french friend,
>  who reads the dots and then works with commas, export with commas,
>  send the file back to the US user who reads the commas without problems.
>
>  Is there a simple way to allow simultaneously dots and commas
>  in the same XML file, with Expat? or at least all dots in one file
>  and all commas in another, and be able to read both?
>
>  is this actually allowed in the XML specification?
>  Carlos



-- 
Nick MacDonald
NickMacD at gmail.com

From jose.carlos.pereira at ist.utl.pt  Thu Mar 13 23:19:08 2008
From: jose.carlos.pereira at ist.utl.pt (Carlos Pereira)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:19:08 +0000
Subject: [Expat-discuss] locale: LC_ALL=french; export LC_ALL
In-Reply-To: <bdcd32c90803130938i5c072ab9x9ec6f0783b725ba1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <47D85E74.30503@ist.utl.pt>
	<bdcd32c90803130938i5c072ab9x9ec6f0783b725ba1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47D9A85C.5030003@ist.utl.pt>

Nick MacDonald wrote:
> Carlos:
>
> In my experience,
> eXpat does NOT interpret the data, it just supplies it to your
> program, and you need to make an interpretation.  Accordingly, I
> suspect the problem is inside your app and how you use the resulting
> data from eXpat, and not with eXpat itself.
>
>   
You are absolutely right, expat just feeds me const char data, my fault, 
I apologize.

Anyway, according to XML schema, only dots are allowed as decimal 
separators:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal

So it might be better to take the conservative approach, at least for 
the moment,
and to forget about commas and other locale-defined separators and do 
everything
with decimal points... simple and consistent...
Carlos



From webmaster at binera.de  Mon Mar 17 23:39:06 2008
From: webmaster at binera.de (Sebastian Pipping)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:39:06 +0100
Subject: [Expat-discuss] Expat task in Apache ideas of Google Summer of Code
	2008
Message-ID: <47DEF30A.9040203@binera.de>

I stumbled upon an Expat-related task in the Apache ideas
of Google Summer of Code 2008. I want 50 percent of your
income if you would have missed it without me ;-)


http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008#expat-axis2c-integration


Subject ID
   expat-axis2c-integration

Title
   Integrate expat parser into Axis2/C soap engine

ASF Project
   Apache Axis2/C

Keywords
   Apache Axis2/C, expat, xml, soap

Description
   Apache Axis2/C is a soap processing engine written in C.
   Any xml parser could be pluggable to Axis2/C engine through
   a parser abstraction layer, already we have integrated two
   xml parsers to Axis2/C engine namly libxml2 and Guththila
   xml parser. This is an idea to integrate expat parser to
   Apache Axis2/C through parser abstraction layer. If you need
   more information please come and ask on <mail address>

Possible Mentors
   Dinesh Premalal <mail address>

Status
   No Student yet



Sebastian