On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 06:54:22PM +0100, Michael Ludwig wrote: > Thomas Gagne schrieb am 06.01.2012 um 11:47 (-0500): > > I'm unclear how I can reformat the file > > > > tgagne@ubuntu:~/tmp$ cat a.xml > > <ns:a> > > </ns:a> > > > > without getting the errors > > > > tgagne@ubuntu:~/tmp$ xmllint --format --recover a.xml > > a.xml:1: namespace error : Namespace prefix ns on a is not defined > > <ns:a> > > ^ > > > > Is it a problem with xmllint or libxml2? > > These days most would say it's a problem with your XML, which is not > namespace-valid.
yes but it should *just* raise the namespace error which it does, but should not generate information loss. > Then, my copy of xmllint (Windows, 20707) reformats the doc alright, it > just also emits the warning you're seeing and, significantly, drops the > part of the name before the colon. > > You'd need a parser configuration that has namespaces switched off. That > should be available as "xmllint --sax1" (the old SAX 1 didn't know about > namespaces), but even then xmllint emits the warning and drops the part > before the colon, which I think is a bug. SAX1 parser is namespace aware just that the callback API isn't. I hate the idea of information loss in the context of XML processing and since support for XML Namespace is still an optional feature I fixed the SAX2 default callbacks to not loose the prefix in this case or if an attribute uses an undefined namespace. SAX2 should be fixed both in case of using a parser dictionnary or not. I will push the patches once I'm off the train ;-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ dan...@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
