Wow, I don't know what's going on then. Xerces folks, any idea what I could be doing in my parser derivative to cause this? I can't see what I would be doing that would change behavior based on if there's a newline in the beginning of the external entity.
-scott "Chris P. McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org otels.com> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], (bcc: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus) Sent by: Subject: Re: Bug: External Entities that begin with newline [EMAIL PROTECTED] com 01/24/00 01:30 PM Please respond to xerces-dev I tried parsing this with just Xerces, and it seems to handle it fine. In both cases it reads and parses the external entity properly. I expected this to be the case since Xalan properly processes the XML in the external entity when it is referenced in a different manner than in this test case. Chris Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus wrote: > Interesting. My first bet is that this is a Xerces issue. You should try > the parse with just Xerces to see what happens. > > -scott > > > "Chris P. McCabe" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org > otels.com> cc: (bcc: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus) > Sent by: Subject: Bug: External Entities that begin with newline > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > com > > > 01/21/00 05:37 PM > Please respond to > xalan-dev > > > > I don't know if this is a Xerces or Xalan bug, but if an external entity > that contains XML begins with a newline character, the XML cannot be > referenced in the stylesheet in certain circumstances. In the test case > below, if test2.xml begins with a newline, the xsl:value-of element in > the stylesheet will produce no value. If the newline is removed, it > works as expected. This is a contrived example to illustrate the > problem, and if a template is created for the "bar" element and > apply-templates is called, it works correctly in either case. > > ============ test.xml ============== > <?xml version="1.0"?> > > <!DOCTYPE page [ > <!ENTITY values SYSTEM "test2.xml"> > ]> > > <page> > &values; > </page> > ===================================== > > ============ test2.xml ============== > > <foo> > <bar>Some Text</bar> > </foo> > ===================================== > > ============= test.xsl ============== > <xsl:stylesheet > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> > > <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/> > > <xsl:template match="page"> > <html><body> > <xsl:value-of select="//bar"/> > </body></html> > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > ===================================== > -- Chris P. McCabe 602-953-4416 Choice Hotels International [EMAIL PROTECTED]