On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:38:27PM +0100, Peter Kullmann wrote: > I have two problems with catalogs that use delegateSystem, delegatePublic or > both. I'm not at all sure whether this is a problem of the libxml > implementation or in my understanding of catalogs.
The semantic is defined there: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html#s.semantics > So here's the setup: > > 1. catalog.xml: > > <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > <delegatePublic > publicIdStartString="-//My Pub//Id" > catalog="delegate-catalog.xml"/> > <delegateSystem > systemIdStartString="http://doesnt.exist"; > catalog="delegate-catalog.xml"/> > </catalog> Don't expect both to be used, on delegates at most one is followed, but if that fails the algorithm never backtracks > 2. delegate-catalog.xml: > > <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > <rewriteURI > uriStartString="http://doesnt.exist"; > rewritePrefix="." /> > <public > publicId="-//My Pub//Id//EN" > uri="a.dtd" /> > </catalog> > > > Here is the first problem: > > xmlcatalog catalog.xml "http://doesnt.exist/a.dtd"; > does not resolve! It tries the delegate, but fails to use the rewrite URI > rule. at one time either URI or Public resolution is used, but not both at the time see the algorithm > xmlcatalog delegate-catalog.xml "http://doesnt.exist/a.dtd"; > resolves correctly (just to check) > > The second problem is related to the first and occurs when validating a > document. The catalog system fails to resolve the dtd in a document that > contains a public id and a system id: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE root PUBLIC "-//My Pub//Id//EN" > "http://doesnt.exist/a.dtd";> > <root /> > > On the other hand, the resolution of the public id seems to work: > xmlcatalog catalog.xml "-//My Pub//Id//EN" > resolves correctly > > > I'm grateful for any hints and tips. Tip: http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html#validate export XML_DEBUG_CATALOG environment variable Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
