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

[Georges Schmitz <georges.schmitz@heitec.de>]

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

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