I checked 2.8.0 out of curiosity - that works, too. It seems a bug has been introduced into 2.9.0 - and it apparently impacts only MSVC 2010 (well, so far it seems I am the only one).
Best regards: Zoltán Ördögh On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Zoltán Ördögh (GMail) <csi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > just to let you know, I downgraded to 2.7.7 and it works like a charm. > > Best regards: Zoltán Ördögh > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Zoltán Ördögh (GMail) > <csi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> thanks for responding over the weekend, much obliged. >> >> Please note that the problem is not the system ID; I replaced the full >> path to the relative one as I was sure that my full path would not work for >> anyone else. >> So, the DTD is in fact, found - how else would xmllint.exe be able to >> validate it? I messed up the DTD on purpose once just to see if there are >> errors - and there were, so xmllint can find the DTD for sure. >> >> The source of my frustrations are the validation errors that are produced >> by a seemingly correct code, validated and well-formed XML and DTD. >> >> The only thing I can think of is that the some build setting may be wrong >> - however I am not adept enough to discover that. >> >> Did anyone managed to get xmlReaderForFile(...) working on MSVC 2010 >> without validation errors? >> >> Best regards: Zoltán Ördögh >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Daniel Veillard <veill...@redhat.com>wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 07:50:56PM -0400, Zoltán Ördögh (GMail) wrote: >>> > I saw this code in xmllint.c (removed conditionals that do not apply): >>> [...] >>> > I tried using the exact same code but I still get the same validation >>> > errors on the first call to xmlTextReaderRead... >>> > It is vexing me... >>> > Any thoughts? >>> >>> See your xml and the system identifier you use for the DTD >>> >>> file:///./ >>> >>> if I use that I get an error that the DTD fails to be loaded on linux >>> and validation fails (xml and dtd being in the same directory) switching >>> to >>> ./testme.dtd >>> >>> works after that i.e. xmllint code succeeds >>> >>> file:// URIs are (or used to be) completely underspecified, and >>> what you use there would mean on a Linux machine, the file testme.dtd >>> which is in the . directory under to root of the filesystem of the >>> localhost machine, i.e. /testme.dtd instead of ./testme.dtd >>> What is does on Windows and why, I can't guess and I can't test, >>> simply run your program under a debugger, since you have a reliable >>> behaviour ! >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat >>> veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit >>> http://xmlsoft.org/ >>> http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ >>> >> >> >
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