On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:55:27PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to parse a document with entities using libxml2: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE schema [ > <!ENTITY ent1 "abc"> > <!ENTITY ent2 "&ent1;def"> > ... > > It looks like libxml does not handle the fact that one entity is defined > in term of another. > > Is it a legal use of entities?
yes > Am I correct in assuming that libxml can not handle this use of > entities? no > I am not sure if the internal tree could handle it properly. I am sure it should be able to handle this properly > The original XML file is a schema included in the following IETF draft: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-simple-xml-patch-ops-02.txt > > The entities are used, as macros, to define the regular expression for > xpath expressions. No idea what your problem is. If you have a problem reproduceable with xmllint please provide them as attachment and describe the problem. 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/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
