Re: [xml] xml bug?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:29:30PM +0100, Morus Walter wrote:
> Hi,
> > 
> > I am currently using xmllint (libxml version 20422) to parse XML 
> > documents. Until recently I was very content with its trustability. But 
> > I came across someting that seems to be a bug of xmllint. I am not sure 
> > if this is the right place to report it. If it is not, I want to 
> > apologize and ask wher I should report it then.
> >
> If you're sure, that it's a bug, you can file it (with minimal but
> complete samples) in bugzilla. See the web page for details.

   http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html

 But one of the very fist thing you must do before reporting a bug is
to check with a recent version. 

> However you should also check, that the bug occurs in recent versions.

  exactly !

> I don't remember in which version, but Daniel changed the validation
> code completely (now using the regex engine written for xml schema).
> 
> If I construct a sample from your info, I don't see a problem with
> 2.5.3:

  and I'm willing to bet that it will solve the problem. The validation
core has changed since and lot of the problem in the old engine have
been fixed in the new version.

> So I suggest you update to 2.5.3.

  yes :-)

Daniel

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