Now IS_BINRAY data type is removed and IS_STRING starts behave as IS_BINARY in unicode mode. IS_STRING is incompatible with IS_UNICODE, so ALL functions should be improved to support unicode mode.
shane and rob richards. there were a lot of race conditions with regards
to the way namespaces have been handled in XML documents so far, this new
method removes the race conditions, and gives me a real reason to add the
children() and attributes() methods.