Title:		libxml2 update
Case:		PSARC/2009/630
Submitter:	Laszlo Peter
Owner:          John Fischer
Timeout:	11/23/2009

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Project/Component Working Name:

    libxml2 update to 2.7.6
    
1.2 Purpose

    This project will deliver an updated version of libxml2
    into Solaris.

    Patch release binding is requested.
    
2.0 Description 

    libxml2 is a C XML parser library and toolkit originally developed
    for the Gnome project and is now widely used in various open
    source and proprietary software projects.

2.1 Security Issues Addressed

    This release of libxml2 incorporates some security fixes previously
    applied to Sun's libxml2 as patches.

2.2 Additional Changes

    Details of all changes since the previous update (version 2.6.31)
    can be found here: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

2.2.1 New Interfaces

    Since the last update (version 2.6.31) the following new APIs
    were added to libxml2:

     xmlChildElementCount				function
     xmlFirstElementChild				function
     xmlLastElementChild				function
     xmlMemDisplayLast					function
     xmlNewEntity					function
     xmlNextElementSibling				function
     xmlPreviousElementSibling				function
     xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt			function
     xmlSchematronSetValidStructuredErrors		function
     xmlStructuredErrorContext;				function
     xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData;			function

3.0 Delivery

    This project is targetting a Patch release of the Solaris OS.

    Availability and file locations:

    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
    |   Package name   |                  File locations                    |
    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
    | SUNWlxml         | /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2                              |
    |                  | /usr/lib/{amd64,sparcv9}/libxml2.so.2              |
    |                  | /usr/bin/xmlcatalog                                |
    |                  | /usr/bin/xmllint                                   |
    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
    | SUNWlxml-devel   | /usr/bin/xml2-config                               |
    |                  | /usr/include/libxml2/*                             |
    |                  | /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc                   |
    |                  | /usr/lib/{amd64,sparcv9}/pkgconfig/libxml-2.0.pc   |
    |                  | /usr/share/aclocal/libxml.m4                       |
    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
    | SUNWlxml-python  | /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/libxml2.py      |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/drv_libxml2.py  |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/libxml2mod.so   |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/64/libxml2mod.so|
    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
    | SUNWlxml-python26| /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/libxml2.py      |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/drv_libxml2.py  |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/libxml2mod.so   |
    |                  | /usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/64/libxml2mod.so|
    +------------------+----------------------------------------------------+

4.0 Interface Classification

    The project exports the following interfaces:

    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |                           Interfaces Exported                         |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
    |      Interface Name          |   Classification   |     Comment       |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
    | libxml2 code base            | Committed          | PSARC/2001/175    |
    |                              |                    | version 2.7.6     |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
    | libxml2 python 2.4 bindings  | Obsolete Volatile  | PSARC/2005/532    |
    |                              |                    | PSARC/2005/555    |
    |                              |                    | PSARC/2009/043    |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
    | libxml2 python 2.6 bindings  | Volatile           | PSARC/2005/532    |
    |                              |                    | PSARC/2009/043    |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
    | SUNWlxml                     | Committed          |                   |
    | SUNWlxml-devel               | Committed          |                   |
    | SUNWlxml-python              | Obsolete Committed |                   |
    | SUNWlxml-python26            | Committed          |                   |
    +------------------------------+--------------------+-------------------+

5.0 References

    Original ARC case:   PSARC/2002/244
    Most recent update:  PSARC/2006/290
    Upstream Web site:   http://xmlsoft.org/