Time to commit 3 days of work rewriting the parser internal,
fixing bugs and migrating to SAX2 interface by default. There
is some work letf TODO, like namespace validation and attributes
normalization (this break C14N right now)
* Makefile.am: fixed the test rules
* include/libxml/SAX2.h include/libxml/parser.h
  include/libxml/parserInternals.h SAX2.c parser.c
  parserInternals.c: changing the parser, migrating to SAX2,
  adding new interface to switch back to SAX1 or initialize a
  SAX block for v1 or v2. Most of the namespace work is done
  below SAX, as well as attribute defaulting
* globals.c: changed initialization of the default SAX handlers
* hash.c tree.c include/libxml/hash.h: added QName specific handling
* xmlIO.c: small fix
* xmllint.c testSAX.c: provide a --sax1 switch to test the old
  version code path
* result/p3p result/p3p.sax result/noent/p3p test/p3p: the new code
  pointed out a typo in a very old test namespace
Daniel
diff --git a/xmlreader.c b/xmlreader.c
index a8ec578..54778bd 100644
--- a/xmlreader.c
+++ b/xmlreader.c
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@
     xmlParserInputBufferPtr	input;	/* the input */
     startElementSAXFunc		startElement;/* initial SAX callbacks */
     endElementSAXFunc		endElement;  /* idem */
+    startElementNsSAX2Func	startElementNs;/* idem */
+    endElementNsSAX2Func		endElementNs;  /* idem */
     charactersSAXFunc		characters;
     cdataBlockSAXFunc		cdataBlock;
     unsigned int 		base;	/* base of the segment in the input */
@@ -272,6 +274,78 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * xmlTextReaderStartElementNs:
+ * @ctx: the user data (XML parser context)
+ * @localname:  the local name of the element
+ * @prefix:  the element namespace prefix if available
+ * @URI:  the element namespace name if available
+ * @nb_namespaces:  number of namespace definitions on that node
+ * @namespaces:  pointer to the array of prefix/URI pairs namespace definitions
+ * @nb_attributes:  the number of attributes on that node
+ * nb_defaulted:  the number of defaulted attributes.
+ * @attributes:  pointer to the array of (localname/prefix/URI/value/end)
+ *               attribute values.
+ *
+ * called when an opening tag has been processed.
+ */
+static void
+xmlTextReaderStartElementNs(void *ctx,
+                      const xmlChar *localname,
+		      const xmlChar *prefix,
+		      const xmlChar *URI,
+		      int nb_namespaces,
+		      const xmlChar **namespaces,
+		      int nb_attributes,
+		      int nb_defaulted,
+		      const xmlChar **attributes)
+{
+    xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = (xmlParserCtxtPtr) ctx;
+    xmlTextReaderPtr reader = ctxt->_private;
+
+#ifdef DEBUG_CALLBACKS
+    printf("xmlTextReaderStartElementNs(%s)\n", fullname);
+#endif
+    if ((reader != NULL) && (reader->startElementNs != NULL)) {
+	reader->startElementNs(ctx, localname, prefix, URI, nb_namespaces,
+	                       namespaces, nb_attributes, nb_defaulted,
+			       attributes);
+	if ((ctxt->node != NULL) && (ctxt->input != NULL) &&
+	    (ctxt->input->cur != NULL) && (ctxt->input->cur[0] == '/') &&
+	    (ctxt->input->cur[1] == '>'))
+	    ctxt->node->_private = (void *) xmlTextReaderIsEmpty;
+    }
+    if (reader != NULL)
+	reader->state = XML_TEXTREADER_ELEMENT;
+}
+
+/**
+ * xmlTextReaderEndElementNs:
+ * @ctx: the user data (XML parser context)
+ * @localname:  the local name of the element
+ * @prefix:  the element namespace prefix if available
+ * @URI:  the element namespace name if available
+ *
+ * called when an ending tag has been processed.
+ */
+static void
+xmlTextReaderEndElementNs(void *ctx,
+                          const xmlChar * localname,
+                          const xmlChar * prefix,
+		          const xmlChar * URI)
+{
+    xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = (xmlParserCtxtPtr) ctx;
+    xmlTextReaderPtr reader = ctxt->_private;
+
+#ifdef DEBUG_CALLBACKS
+    printf("xmlTextReaderEndElementNs(%s)\n", fullname);
+#endif
+    if ((reader != NULL) && (reader->endElementNs != NULL)) {
+	reader->endElementNs(ctx, localname, prefix, URI);
+    }
+}
+
+
+/**
  * xmlTextReaderCharacters:
  * @ctx: the user data (XML parser context)
  * @ch:  a xmlChar string
@@ -1123,6 +1197,15 @@
     ret->sax->startElement = xmlTextReaderStartElement;
     ret->endElement = ret->sax->endElement;
     ret->sax->endElement = xmlTextReaderEndElement;
+    if (ret->sax->initialized == XML_SAX2_MAGIC) {
+	ret->startElementNs = ret->sax->startElementNs;
+	ret->sax->startElementNs = xmlTextReaderStartElementNs;
+	ret->endElementNs = ret->sax->endElementNs;
+	ret->sax->endElementNs = xmlTextReaderEndElementNs;
+    } else {
+	ret->startElementNs = NULL;
+	ret->endElementNs = NULL;
+    }
     ret->characters = ret->sax->characters;
     ret->sax->characters = xmlTextReaderCharacters;
     ret->sax->ignorableWhitespace = xmlTextReaderCharacters;