Re: [xml] Possible "buggette"

[Matt Sergeant <matt sergeant org>]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:30:00AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > Not really sure if I'm doing something wrong here, or if libxml is...
> >
> > When running the docbook xslt stuff through XML::LibXML, the external
> > entity callback I've setup doesn't get the ctxt pointer I setup before
> > starting the parse. Instead it gets a completely different ctxt
> > pointer. The callback is called several times with the ctxt pointer I
> > originally setup, but at some point it switches to something else. The
> > particular entity it is loading is "../common/iso-lat1.ent".
> >
> > Is this the expected behaviour? And if so, is there any way I can get the
> > ctxt pointer I created?
>
>   Hum, might be non trivial to fix, but doable.
> The xmlParseExternalEntity() function creates a new parser context
> for handling the entity parsing. This is fine as long as processing
> don't depends on using a specific context (entity processing ain't
> simple :-\). I could possibly modify the parser to not use a new
> context (I would need to save and restore a bunch of things but it
> should be doable). Depending on how badly the "buggette" affects
> you, I would do it sooner or later. I would appreciate if you could
> enter the bug in the bugzilla.gnome.org database so I don't forget it :-)

What about copying over the _private entry to the new ctxt? Perhaps based
on some global flag which you could disable by default. That would be an
easy fix, it seems.

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