Re: [xml] XInclude and the default namespace

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:13:24AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> I think this is a bug in XInclude support in libxml 2.6.16.
> 
> Consider:
> 
> test.xml:
> 
> <doc xmlns="http://example.com/";
>      xmlns:xi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude'>
> 
> <p>What about this?</p>
> 
> <xi:include href="testinc.xml" xpointer="/1/1"/>
> 
> </doc>
> 
> and testinc.xml:
> 
> <doc>
> 
> <p>This is p from no namespace</p>
> 
> </doc>
> 
> and
> 
> $ xmllint -xinclude test.xml
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <doc xmlns="http://example.com/"; xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";>
> 
> <p>What about this?</p>
> 
> <p>This is p from no namespace</p>
> 
> </doc>
> 
> I think that second 'p' needs an xmlns="". Note that if the second 'p'
> is in some other namespace, the proper declaration is added, so it
> seems to be the edge case of the "no namespace" that's the problem.

  Right, this is a bug. Could you bugzilla it so we don't loose track
of the issue. I can reproduce it on the latest version.

Daniel

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