Re: [docbook-apps] XIncludes with relative paths (libxml + WinXP).

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Georges Schmitz <georges.schmitz@heitec.de> writes:

> Ouch, how embarassing! Making the same error twice ...

um, er, urp... The egg is on my face, actually.

See Colin's follow-up message. It appears the colons in URIs are
actually RFC-compliant now. Whether or not libxml attempts or
claims to support the current RFC, I do not know. But if it
doesn't, it should...

> Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> >Georges Schmitz <georges.schmitz@heitec.de> writes:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>  xmllint.exe --noent --valid  --recover  --xinclude -o resolved.xml 
> >>"file:///D:/BAZL/doc/de/ml/ml-main.xml"
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >If you are trying to feed xmllint a URI containing a colon
> >character, all bets are off. See the following message:
> >
> > http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200412/msg00059.html
> >
> >RFC 1630 says that colon characters are not allowed in URIs. So a
> >URI containing a colon is not an RFC-compliant URI. If you want to
> >use a colon in a URI and to have your processing tools behave as
> >expected, you must write it as %3A.
> >
> >You can't really complain if a particular tool behaves in an
> >unexpected way when you ask it to do something with a
> >not-RFC-compliant URI.
> > 
> >
> 
> Blame on me, you are absolutely right. But there are so many tools, that 
> accept the "wrong" notation, that one gets used to write it down this 
> way. Even libxml accepts this form in catalog files without complaining.
> 
> Regards,
> Georges

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