[xml] Parsed entities in namespaces

["Richard Jinks" <cyberthymia2 yahoo co uk>]

Hi

 

I think I might have stumbled across a problem with the way libxml handles entities when the reference is inside a default namespace. (I am using libxml2-2.6.11)

 

-- a.xml --

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE root SYSTEM "" [

<!ENTITY element "<child_entity/>">

]>

<root xmlns="http://www.test.com/test">

<child/>

&element;

</root>

 

If I run the following XSLT against this xml (to output the namespace of each element)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
  <xsl:template match="node()">
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/><xsl:text>: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="namespace-uri()"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I get

root: http://www.test.com/test

child: http://www.test.com/test

child_entity:

 

Why isn't the "child_entity" in the default namespace as well? From what I can tell reading the XML and Namespace specs, my xml document should be directly equivalent to:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<root xmlns="http://www.test.com/test">

<child/>

<child_entity/>

</root>

 

Is this a bug with libxml, or have I misunderstood something?

 

Thanks,

Richard