XMLmind XML Editor does not support the full power of external entities
and XIncludes.
XMLmind XML Editor allows, to a certain extent, to author modular
documents. In order to support this feature, we used two standard
mechanisms: external entities and XIncludes.
But, once again, this does not mean that everything you can do with
external entities and XIncludes will be supported by our editor.
This being said, we'll of course try to fix the bug described in [2].
Benoit Maisonny (Synclude) wrote:
>
> I found some limitations or bugs while using XXE Standard and external
> entities ("referenced document"):
>
> 1. a referenced document cannot itself contain another referenced
> document: the top-level referencing document cannot even be open, XXE
> complaining about undefined entity references
>
> 2. if an external entity is defined in an external parameter entity,
> which is in a different directory that the referencing document, then
> the referenced document cannot be edited, as explained below:
>
> referencing doc = a.xml
> a.xml contains the following , in the doctype declaration
> [ <!ENTITY % s_entities SYSTEM "entities/s.ent">
> %s_entities; ]
> and, later, a reference to an external entity:
> &foo;
> This entity is defined in entities/spec.ent:
> <!ENTITY foo SYSTEM "../foo.xml">
> And indeed, summarySpec.xml is in the same directory as a.xml.
>
> XXE displays the content of foo.xml, but when I want to edit it (using
> the toolbar button to "Edit References Document"), XXE tries to open the
> file in the parent directory of a.xml's directory. So, the entity foo is
> resolved using a.xml's base path instead of s.ent's path.
> I believe this is a bug, since a.xml is valid, accoding to Xerces and
> other parsers (even to XXE!).
