encoding: Deprecate xmlByteConsumed

This was only used by Chromium/WebKit to detect whether xmlParseContent
really succeeded. It's a horrible, overcomplicated hack.

See 8c5848bd and #767.

encoding.c

@@ -1905,6 +1905,8 @@ xmlCharEncCloseFunc(xmlCharEncodingHandler *handler) {
  * xmlByteConsumed:
  * @ctxt: an XML parser context
  *
+ * DEPRECATED: Don't use.
+ *
  * This function provides the current index of the parser relative
  * to the start of the current entity. This function is computed in
  * bytes from the beginning starting at zero and finishing at the

include/libxml/parser.h

@@ -1347,9 +1347,7 @@ XMLPUBFUN xmlParserInputPtr
 					 const char *ID,
 					 xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
 
-/*
+XML_DEPRECATED
- * Index lookup, actually implemented in the encoding module
- */
 XMLPUBFUN long
 		xmlByteConsumed		(xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt);
 

python/generator.py

@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ deprecated_funcs = {
     'namePush': True,
     'nodePop': True,
     'nodePush': True,
+    'xmlByteConsumed': True,
     'xmlCheckFilename': True,
     'xmlCheckLanguageID': True,
     'xmlCleanupCharEncodingHandlers': True,