App submission, private symbol references

[dageshi]

And so it begins.

Thank you for submitting Vietnam Guide for Backpackers to the App Store.

Vietnam Guide for Backpackers cannot be posted to the App Store because it is using private or undocumented APIs:

Private Symbol References

tidyBufAlloc
tidyBufFree
tidyBufInit
tidyCleanAndRepair
tidyCreate
tidyOptSetBool
tidyParseBuffer
tidyParseString
tidyRelease
tidySaveBuffer
tidySaveString
tidySetCharEncoding
tidySetErrorBuffer
tidySetOutCharEncoding

As you know, as outlined in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.1, the use of non-public APIs is not permitted. Before your application can be reviewed by the App Review Team, please resolve this issue and upload a new binary to iTunes Connect.

Sincerely,

iPhone Developer Program

This appears to be because I'm compiling and linking against libtidy

HTML Tidy Project Page

Which is an open source library for fixing up broken xml.

Presumably apple are using said library as well and so I'm getting clobbered even though I'm compiling my own copy and not linking against apples version.

Any suggestions? I presume trying to tell apple that this isn't a private api issue is utterly futile and I'm better off mangling the function names in the library and recompiling/resubmitting?

[gbh]

resubmit and be sure to add notes in the reviewer notes section. Also email and ask for an expedited review and explain the issue.

[dageshi]

Thank you, I've done as you suggested last night and I've not heard anything back yet which I take as a good sign.

[dageshi]

Well I think on balance it would be better to change the function names. Turns out that check is 100% automated, I added the notes as you suggested and it's still come back binary rejected with the same error, so obviously no one is reading the notes before that check is done.

If this were the only time I'll be submitting this app it wouldn't matter but I'm going to be repeating submission for different countries and essentially I'll have to go through this mess each time.