On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:57:39AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > I think there's a bug in xsltproc's handling of namespaces and > external parsed entities. Or a bug in my understanding of the relevant > specs :-) > > Consider book.xml which includes Links.xml by way of entity reference: > > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <!DOCTYPE book [ > <!ENTITY links SYSTEM "Links.xml"> > ]> > <book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook";> > ... > &links; > ... > </book> > > where Links.xml is just a para: > > <para>...</para> > > If I process this with showns.xsl, I get (in part:) > > Found {http://docbook.org/ns/docbook}book > Found {http://docbook.org/ns/docbook}info > ... > Found {}para > ... > > It appears that xsltproc "forgets" the in-scope namespace declarations > when it expands the external parsed entity. I think that's a bug.
Yes known b ug. the parsing of the entities doesn't see the namespace declarations from the reference point, the parsing being done out of context. The origin lays in libxml2 being designed for authoring, I wanted multiple entities references to share the same subtree at the time, this was mostly okay before namespaces. I should revisit the issue since nobody really author XML as XML and entities are just a design mistake if you think of them as shared docuemnt part as we used to. Oh well, sorry, just repeat your namespaces declarations, it will also ease the transition to to XInclude for those use cases... 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/ _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
