http://treebeard.liblime.com/ctf/expat-marc-test.pl

It passes my testing, but his description of the failure case is only vaguely described as "sometimes causes the entire record to be destroyed."

Anyone come up with a failure case?

Clay

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Chris Cormack <chris@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:

Here we go

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl4lib/2006/05/msg2369.html

You might even be able to find those files somewhere on your servers :-)

Chris

2010/11/12 Clay Fouts <cfouts@liblime.com>:

> Hi, all.
> Can anyone point me to documentation about why Expat is considered
> incompatible with Koha (and I'm assuming MARC::File::XML). I know there are
> dire warnings against such, but what are the test cases where it fails?
> Expat is considerably faster than the LibXML implementation, and it would be
> a shame if we were continuing to avoid using it without due cause. I've been
> unable to detect issues with it in my anecdotal test cases thus far.
> Thank you,
> Clay
>

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