We are encountering a problem with xsltproc on Windows when we specify an
output filename which contains 1 or more single quotes. For instance, in this
command line here:
xsltproc -o "C:\temp\a'quote.xml" "C:\Temp\transform.xsl"
"C:\Temp\input.xml"
We are seeing this response from xsltproc:
runtime error
xsltApplyStylesheet: saving to file:///C:/temp/a'quote.xml may not be
possible
When we debug xsltproc, we have traced the problem down to the xmlParseURI()
function being used by security.c, where an improper parsing of the filepath
results in a null uri object which ultimately leads to a false being returned
by xsltCheckWritePath() and hence the above error message.
Digging further into libxml, it appears that there could be a bug with the
ISA_SUB_DELIM macro, where the comment associated with the macro specifies that
a single quote should be included, but the macro itself has left the single
quote off its list:
/*
* sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")"
* / "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="
*/
#define ISA_SUB_DELIM(p) \
(((*(p) == '!')) || ((*(p) == '$')) || ((*(p) == '&')) || \
((*(p) == '(')) || ((*(p) == ')')) || ((*(p) == '*')) || \
((*(p) == '+')) || ((*(p) == ',')) || ((*(p) == ';')) || \
((*(p) == '=')))
This omission ends up tripping xmlParse3986Segment(), since it then stops
parsing on the single quote and will result in an incomplete parse of the URI.
There is a workaround for this issue for xsltproc, where we specify a filename
which is an already escaped URI:
xsltproc -o "file:///C:/temp/a%27quote.xml" "C:\Temp\transform.xsl"
"C:\Temp\input.xml"
However, given the nature and ultimate cause of the problem, we believe that
the problem is much more fundamental and is at the core of the uri processing
in libxml, and hence could have a larger ramification beyond that of just
xsltproc. Addressing this issue at the source would seem to be the best way to
go.
If there are possibly other suggestions for dealing with this issue, please let
us know. Thanks.
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