RE: [xml] Substitution of nested entity references

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:30 PM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> Subject: Re: [xml] Substitution of nested entity references
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:16:38PM +0200, Henke, Markus wrote:
> > <cut />
> >
> > You'll get "> Text &aNestedEnt; MoreText" !!!
> > *That's* what i talk about all the time... 8)
>
>   Argh, apologies, 

(Sigh of relief) I've nearly begun to doubt that i'm in the
right ballpark... 8)
 
< < <cut />
> > With an xml document like the one above you'll get
> >
> >   xmlNodeGetContent(xmlDocGetRootElement(docPtr)))
> >   == "Content &aNestedEnt; MoreContent";
> >
> > which IMHO isn't correct (resp. not what i would've expected).
>
>   Exact,
>
> > Maybe you could revise my approach under this new perspective
> > (provided that i'm right and we've talked at cross purposes
> > before)?
>
>   yes, simply fix xmlNodeGetContent() and xmlNodeListGetString(,,1) to
> behave correctly in this case. I actually think it is a 
> libxml2 bug and
> I would appreciate if you could take care of it since you 
> have explored
> much of it. Simply recurse on entity refs content to complete the work
> currently handled only at level 1 of entity indirection. As explained
> before this shall not loop since it would result in a well formedness
> error to have a loop in entities references.
>
>   thanks !
>
> Daniel

OK, i'll do so. But first i'll try get these GnuWin32 diffTools
up and run...

See you soon, Markus