[php-maint] Bug#580383: Bug#580383: Bug#580383: php-xml-parser uses deprecated eregi and reference of new object

[Thomas Goirand]

----- Original message -----
> You're using "prereg_match" which I think is a misspelling of the
> "preg_match" function. Did you test it?

Wooops!!! :(

> I was wondering apart from this why you keep the ereg(i) calls. All
> versions of PHP also support preg_match, so you can just replace them
> with preg_match calls unconditionally.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thijs

Because of upstream insisting to support
ante-diluvian version of php, and my will to have
the patch upstreamed.

Thomas