Further testing showed that any whitespace character at the beginning of the external entity causes the problem. Not just a newline. A single space will do it.
Chris Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus wrote: > 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> > > ===================================== > >
