On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:25:11AM +0000, Ralf Mattes wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to understand a strange behavior of libxml2's XInclude > implementation. Given the following fragment: > > ... > <xi:include href="book.xml" xpointer="xpointer(//author)" > > <xi:fallback>No authors for this book ... </xi:fallback> > </xi:include> > > If book.xml doesn't exist the fallback will kick in and everything > works as expected, but if book.xml does exist but the xpointer doesn't > return any nodes the inclusion fails with the following error message: > > > : XPointer evaluation failed: #xpointer(//author) > : could not load /tmp/book.xml, and no fallback was found > > Is this a quirk in the specs (but then the error message would be utterly > misleading) of a bug in the implementation?
That sounds like a bug, but while I get the error, the content seems correct to me with libxml2 from git: paphio:~/XML -> xmllint --xinclude tst.xml tst.xml:2: element include: XInclude error : XPointer evaluation failed: #xpointer(//author) tst.xml:2: element include: XInclude error : could not load book.xml, and no fallback was found <?xml version="1.0"?> <inc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> No authors for this book ... </inc> paphio:~/XML -> So except for the second line of error which is wrong the processing however seems correct, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
