Re: [libxml++] question about Document::set_entity_declaration()

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Christophe, could we branch for gnome-2-10, so I can fix this in HEAD,
please?

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:51 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:38 +0100, Kike Fernandez wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a way to create an entity declaration of this type with
> > Document::set_entity_declaration() function?
> > 
> > <!ENTITY TDoc01 SYSTEM "proba.xml" NDATA CorpusId>
> > 
> > set_entity_declaration() takes five arguments, one of which is the
> > publicId. In libxml I can pass a NULL pointer as publicId
> 
> We did not know that null was a possible value for some of these
> xmlAddDocEntity() parameters. The libxml documentation is not clear
> about this.
> 
> We will have to add some method overloads in libxml++ 2.11/12. It's too
> late to add them to libxml++ 2.10 now.
> 
> In the meantime, you should be able to call cobj() and use the
> xmlAddDocEntity() function directly.
> 
> >  so the library
> > creates correctly the entity but in libxml++ I cannot pass a NULL
> > pointer (I get "Exception caught: attempt to create string with null
> > pointer") and passing an empty string always creates something like 
> > 
> > <!ENTITY TDoc01 PUBLIC "" "proba.xml" NDATA CorpusId> 
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? 
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
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