Re: [xml] Multiple XML Schema Includes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:04:19PM -0500, Adam Trachtenberg wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2003, at 6:42 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Adam Trachtenberg wrote:
> > > Do other people agree this is a bug in libxml2 or am I misreading the
> > > spec? I am far from an XML Schema expert.
> >
> >  I'm not an XML Schema expert either <grin/>. Post the full schemas
> > and instance examples in a bugzilla report please,
>
> I have to say the language in that section of the spec was some of the 
> ugliest I've seen in any W3C document in a long time. :(
>
> Unfortunately, I can't post the actual files due to NDA issues, but I 
> will come up with a replicating test case or two and post those 
> instead.

   yes, that will be good enough, provide a tarball attachment to the bug
report.

> Looking at the code, I think one solution is to store the 
> schemaLocation in a hash and returning 1 (or 2) if we've parsed the 
> file before. That would solve my problem, but not the more general 
> issue of an included file redefining the same element identically as 
> the parent document. (Which I think is legal, but it's hard to 
> understand exactly what's going on in the spec.)

   Unfortunately doing the implementation is nearly the simple part
of the problem, trying to understand the spec takes more time !

Daniel

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