xmerl: Option {prolog,stop} removed between 0.17 and 1.0.3 ?

[Bertil Karlsson]

That option was removed before the first OTP-release. I cannot remember 
the reason why it was removed and I have not found any comments about it 
either.

/Bertil

Adam Aquilon wrote:

>
> Does anyone know why the {prolog,stop} option was removed somewhere
> between xmerl-0.17 and xmerl-1.0.3 ?
>
> Is there a replacement for it?
>
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>
> I studied the changelogs available at sowap.sourceforge.net and the ones
> that are part of the 1.0.3 documentation, but could only find the 
> addition
> of the feature in xmerl-0.16. There was no mention of it being removed
> (as far as I could see).
>
> When trying to run old code against 1.0.3, I got a 'function_clause'
> exception in xmerl_scan:initial_state([{prolog,stop}], <state>).
> There is no clause handling the {prolog,stop} option.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info on this,
> Adam Aquilon