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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:35:45 +0200
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To: Markus Fischer <markus@fischer.name>
Cc: Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: RFC: Replacing errors with Exceptions
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 23:17, Markus Fischer<markus@fischer.name> wrote:
> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 20:28, Joey Smith<joey@joeysmith.com> wrote:
>>> However, now that it's come up, I'm wondering what the costs/risks are
>>> of setting libxml_use_internal_errors() on by default?
>>
>> I don't think thats a good idea.
>> People are used to getting a warning when stuff fails, and suppressing
>> them all of the sudden is not cool and people will waste a good chunk
>> of time figuring out what is wrong with the script they are developing
>> and eventually find out libxml_use_internal_errors() is enabled by
>> default and they'll start flaming the list about how much we all suck.
>
> Observing the thread, I totally agree to that. In my case I've "been
> there, done that" and although I flamed at the beginning why I can't
> catch the error properly (until I found the said function :) ), you can

I just realized we don't link to that function from the simplexml docs.

I'll add some "see also" links and add an "errors" section mentioning it too.

-Hannes