[xml] xmlReadFile with filename instead of URL?

[Michael Day <mikeday yeslogic com>]

Hi,

The xmlReadFile() and htmlReadFile() functions take a URL. This appears 
to make it very difficult to load a local file that contains percentages 
in the name, as they will be unescaped:

    xmlReadFile("foo%2Fbar.xml") => tries to load "foo/bar.xml".

Is there some way to specify that the argument to xmlReadFile() is 
actually just a filename?

Or is it necessary to convert every relative filename into an absolute 
file: URL to guarantee correct processing? (The downside of this is that 
error messages will be reported using the long clunky URL rather than 
the original short filename).

Best regards,

Michael

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