Re: [xml] Any xsd:import fixes lately?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 07:30:19PM +0200, Svenn-Ivar Svendsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (I tried to seach for info in the archives before posting this, but it seems
> there are som problems with the search indexes...)
>
> I'm using xmlstarlet, an xml command line tool which I understand is based
> on libxml2.
>
> Including the follwing reference in a schema makes xmlstarlet hang
> (presumably somewhere within libxml2) when I use the schema to validate an
> xml document:
> <xsd:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";
> schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd"/>
>
> If I do not import the external schema (and remove related elements in the
> target xml document) the validation works fine.
>
> The latest build of xmlstarlet dates back to March 2003, and I'm tempted to
> get the source (including the libxml2 source on which its based) by CVS and
> build a new version myself. Not being fluent in these things, it would take
> me a while.
>
> So the question before digging into it is: Is it probable that this problem
> is caused by an outdated version of libxml, and is there a chance that it
> has been fixed by now?

  grab the latest libxml2 (2.6.26) on xmlsoft.org, recompile, and try your
schemas and instance with xmllint --schema . If it fails report the full
schemas , if it doesnt fail it's due to an older version.

Daniel

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