Re: [xml] Error: failed to canonicalize XML file "-" (ret=-1)

["Mikhail S Grushinskiy" <mgrushinskiy comcast net>]

Thanks,

That explains it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aleksey Sanin" <aleksey aleksey com>
To: "Mikhail S Grushinskiy" <mgrushinskiy comcast net>
Cc: <xml gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [xml] Error: failed to canonicalize XML file "-" (ret=-1)


> Mikhail,
>
> Sorry for late reply, I was out of town and was not able to run a test 
> on your file.
>
> If you compile LibXML2 with DEBUG_C14N macro defined then you will get
> the following output that gives a hint on what caused the problem:
>
> [aleksey lsh libxml2]$ ./testC14N --without-comments /tmp/a.xml
> xmlC14NProcessElementNode: xmlC14NCheckForRelativeNamespaces failed.
> xmlC14NExecute: process childrens' list failed.
> xmlC14NDocDumpMemory: xmlC14NDocSaveTo failed.
> Error: failed to canonicalize XML file "./tmp/a.xml" (ret=-1)
>
> The problem is "relative" URI in the namespace declaration. According to 
> the spec ([1]),
> LibXML2 does the right thing here:
>
> *        Note:* This specification supports the recent XML plenary 
> decision 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315#PlenaryDecision> to 
> deprecate
>         relative namespace URIs as follows: implementations of XML 
> canonicalization
>         MUST report an operation failure on documents containing 
> relative namespace URIs.
>         XML canonicalization MUST NOT be implemented with an XML parser 
> that converts
>         relative URIs to absolute URIs.
>
>
> With best regards,
> Aleksey
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315



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