EMANE (0.8.1, 0.9.1) may stop working for you after installing updates to 
libxml2 -- as pointed out by Hasnain on the emane-users mailing list (below).

Here is a patch to emanegentransportxml that will turn off XML validation:
https://code.google.com/p/coreemu/issues/detail?id=247

-Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:emane-users-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hasnain Lakhani
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [emane-users] emanegentransportxml broken with latest libxml2 update
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our tests started failing on Friday. We use EMANE 0.7.4.
> 
> Debugging showed that EMANE uses external parameters entities in the XML
> files; specifically the DTD links (I believe). We were getting errors on
> files that worked perfectly fine previously. The errors would be of the
> following form:
> 
> 
>       validity error : No declaration for element param
>       validity error : No declaration for attribute name of element param
>       validity error : No declaration for attribute value of element param
> 
> 
> libxml2 had a security update on Thursday:
> 
> libxml2 (2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7) precise-security; urgency=medium
> 
>   * SECURITY UPDATE: resource exhaustion via external parameter entities
>     - parser.c: do not fetch external parameter entities.
>     -
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9cd1c3cfbd32655d60572c0a413e0
> 17260c854df
>     - CVE-2014-0191
>  -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden>   Thu, 08 May 2014 14:30:38 -0400
> After downgrading libxml down to 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.6 we noticed that
> emanegentransportxml works fine again.
> 
> This behaviour should be fixed so that it works again with the latest
> libxml2. I'll be happy to provide further information if needed.
> 
> Hasnain

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