Re: [xml] xmlcatalog: discrepancy between shell and command line usage

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:32:08PM +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across this somewhat unexpected behaviour of xmlcatalog:
>
> markus mortimer ~/prog/refdb-0.9.5-pre6$ xmlcatalog --shell public
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/nonexistent/docbook.xsl
> No entry for PUBLIC
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/nonexistent/docbook.xsl
>
> markus mortimer ~/prog/refdb-0.9.5-pre6$ xmlcatalog /etc/xml/catalog
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/nonexistent/docbook.xsl
> file:///usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/nonexistent/docbook.xsl
>
> That is, xmlcatalog correctly reports that there is no such entry in
> the catalog only if used in the shell mode. When used from the command
> line, it apparently only rewrites the path from an URL to a local file
> path, regardless of whether such an entry exists.
>
> It is probably an incorrect expectation on my side that both commands are
> equivalent. If the command-line version is indeed meant for a different
> purpose, would it be possible to add a command-line version of the shell
> command?

  xmlcatalog cannot check the output of a rewriteURL actually exists.
The problem is in your catalog file, not in xmlcatalog IMHO.

Daniel

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