RE: [xml] Problems with libxml2 and OSD files.

["Keim, Markus" <markus_keim ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanislav Tihohod [mailto:tihohod mail ru]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:51 AM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: [xml] Problems with libxml2 and OSD files.
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to parse the Open Software Distribution (OSD) file created
> with DUBuild utility from Microsoft SDK for Java 4.0. The file is
> parsed OK when using libxml-1.8.9 and failed with libxml2-2.6.7.
>
> The content of the OSD file:
>
> <?XML version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE SOFTPKG SYSTEM 
> "http://www.microsoft.com/standards/osd/osd.dtd";>
> <?XML::namespace 
> href="http://www.microsoft.com/standards/osd/msicd.dtd"; as="MSICD"?>
>
> <SOFTPKG NAME="Hello World" VERSION="2,1,1,1">
> <!-- created by DUBuild version 5.00.3229 -->
>
>     <TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
>
>     <MSICD::JAVA>
>
>         <NAMESPACE>JARM Rewritten Applet</NAMESPACE>
>
>         <PACKAGE NAME="hello" VERSION="2,1,1,1">
>             <IMPLEMENTATION/>
>         </PACKAGE>
>
>     </MSICD::JAVA>
>
> </SOFTPKG>
>
> The first problem is that the prologue in this XML code is started
> from the 'XML', not the 'xml'. It seems that the parser in 
> libxml-1.8.9
> supports such the prologue, but the libxml2-2.6.7 erroneously does
> not. Isn't it a bug in libxml2-2.6.7?
>
> The second problem with libxml2-2.6.7 is that (after changing 
> 'XML' to 'xml' in prologue
> manually) the line  with <MSICD::JAVA> tag is considered erroneously
> by libxml2-2.6.7 with several error messages appeared. I guess that
> this is because the OSD files has come from the times when XML
> language has not namespaces and this ancient syntax is not 
> supported in
> libxml2 anymore.
>
> So, is there any way to use libxml2 to parse OSD files?
 
Hardly, since libxml2 parses only XML documents and your
file isn't one.

> Best regards,
>  Stanislav Tihohod                         mailto:tihohod mail ru

Good luck & Ciao, Markus