Re: [xml] Problem with filenames with :'s in them on UNIX...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:39:30AM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> >   Okay, that's another problem. "sa-01:32.xml" loads fine, but
> > it's internally registered as having an URI "sa-01:32.xml" and
> > when the entity loader is asked to compute the URI-Reference
> > for the DTD:
> >     sa-01:32.xml + security_advisory.dtd
> >  generates
> >     sa-01://security_advisory.dtd
> > 
> >    The only way to try to avoid this internally would be to transform
> > the internal URI onto a file:///absolute_path_to_directory/sa-01:32.xml
> > As far as I know there is no construct allowing to use file:// scheme
> > with a relative path :-(
> > 
> >   One more issue with the Path/URI mess ...
> 
> ::sigh:: Alright, well, I don't know enough or why this'd happen, but
> isn't there an #ifdef that could be used so that UNIX folk wouldn't
> have to worry about coping with M$ BS, or is this exclusively a
> problem with URIs?  Seems as though things could be preserved in their

  It's a problem at the URI level ... Can't blame MS for this :-\

> literal format if sa-01: isn't a valid URI scheme (have to add an
> interface to load valid schemes that libxml supports?).
> 
> Just a thought, I don't really care that much other than that this
> surprised me.  -sc

  Well the problem is that this surface somewhere else ...
I will need to fix things there due to other reasons :-\

Daniel

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