Re: [xml] problems with entity in default namespace declaration

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:24:40PM +0100, Lars Weber wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> does anyone know what could be the reason for xmllint outputting
>
>         test.rdf:8: parser warning : xmlns: URI &foo; is not absolute
>         <foo xmlns="&foo;"
>                           ^
>
> when confronted with the following document
>
>         <?xml version="1.0"?>
>         
>         <!DOCTYPE foo [
>         <!ENTITY foo "http://foo.org/";>
>         <!ENTITY bar "http://bar.org/";>
>         ]>
>         
>         <foo xmlns="&foo;"
>              xmlns:bar="&bar;">
>         
>         </foo>
>
> ?
>
> When I exchange the entity reference &foo; with http://foo.org/ I don't
> get the above warning.

  bugzilla this, this should not happen. But in general using entities
for namespace values is of poor taste.

Daniel

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