hi Bill and all,

I found at least two points -
the first is encoding - only the old parser allows me to index iso 
8859-2 and Windows 1250 documents (in other words, something besides iso 
8859-1)

the second reason is compilation - I have found that I could not compile 
swish on some hosts (ie. shared webhosting, where there is no libxml2). 
The old parser may be good for people who don't have control over their 
servers.

BUT - as Peter Karman wrote buildswish.pl (and I believe the statically 
built binaries can be copied to some other place - I tried it), this 
reason seems to be unimportant

encoding still matters

best regards
roman


Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:19:58AM -0700, Roman Chyla wrote:
> 
>>(Personally, I did not do it yet and I use old parser with both iso 
>>8859-2 and Windows-1250 documents. It is true that you should not mix 
>>documents with various encodings in one index, but in this case it is 
>>possible with TranslateChars directive)
> 
> 
> Hi Roman,
> 
> There is (and has been for a while) talk of removing the old parsers
> from swish and requiring libxml2.  Is there a reason you require the
> old parser?
>