Re: Deprecation warnings on Rocky 10.2 with current dev branch

On 2026-07-17 Fr 10:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com> writes:
>> I've just noticed this while building from the dev branch on Rocky 10.2 x64:
>> ../postgresql/src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c:1961:17: warning: ‘xmlKeepBlanksDefault’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>> 1961 | xmlKeepBlanksDefault(save_keep_blanks);
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Is this known already?
> Yeah. It's annoying as heck, because they deprecated that without
> providing an adequate replacement. The replacement is claimed to
> be "Use the modern options API with XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS", but there
> is no direct equivalent to xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory that takes
> an options argument.
>
> So to get rid of this, we're looking at a probably-nontrivial
> rewrite of xml_parse(), with possibly some user-visible behavioral
> changes, and who-knows-what effects for compatibility across
> different libxml2 versions.
>
> If you feel like researching that, have at it.
>

I think we can probably use xmlParseInNodeContext(), which does take an
options argument. Did you look at that?

cheers

andrew

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