Re: [xml] Questions about xmllint: possible bug?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:15:09AM -0500, david hagood gmail com wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about xmllint, including what I think may be
> a bug:
>
> First of all, is it possible to tell xmllint NOT to complain about a
> missing <DOCTYPE> entry, or failing that, to not complain about a missing
> DTD?

  Where does this come from ???
xmllint do *not* require, use, nor even fetch the DTD ... unless you are asking
for it. Sorry doesn't do that for me.

> The reason is that I am wanting to use a RelaxNG schema for
> validation (as it will allow me to be "tighter" in my validation than a
> DTD can be), and I cannot synthesize a DTD from my schema (trang cannot
> handle the fact that I use the same sub-element name two different
> elements, among other problems).
>
> Obviously, if somebody can point me at a tool that can do the RelaxNG to
> DTD conversion better than trang does, I'd far rather generate a DTD and
> have that in the XML.

  If you have 2 elements with same name and different content model this
is obviously impossible to express with a DTD, no too will fix that, the
language is just misdesigned !

> Second of all, xmllint is, in my opinion, mis-reporting where errors
> happen: consider the following XML

  yes that happens, especially when the content model forces to backtrack 
to a different branch in a validation.

> xmllint --version
> xmllint: using libxml version 20623

  Very first thing to do as pointed in the help page:
    http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html

 Update to the latest version !!!

Daniel

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