[xml] xmlIO questions

[François Delyon <f delyon satimage fr>]

Hi,

Problem with xmlInputCallbackInitialized.
As far as I understand, xmlInputCallbackInitialized is a static flag  
to detect that the default callbacks have been installed.
And xmlRegisterDefaultInputCallbacks set this flag to 1.
That's OK.
But xmlRegisterInputCallbacks also set this flag to 1, so that I  
register myself a callbaack, the defaults will not be installed.
Is it intentional and why?
xmlOutputCallbackInitialized has the same behavior.

Problems with URLs.
1-
I do not understand some features of xmlLoadExternalEntity.
If xmlLoadExternalEntity is called with "file:///test.xml" or "file://localhost/test.xml 
", it finds that xmlNoNetExists is not 0 and directly calls  
xmlCurrentExternalEntityLoader.
Now if the URL is "file:/test.xml" then xmlNoNetExists=0 and after  
some trials it will open the file.
Up to me these URL are rather equivalent (RFC 3986: For example, the  
"file" URI scheme is defined so that no authority,
 an empty host, and "localhost" all mean the end-user's machine,  
whereas the "http"
scheme considers a missing authority or empty host invalid.).
The test
        if (!xmlStrncasecmp(BAD_CAST filename, BAD_CAST "file:/", 6)
is done in xmlFileOpen_real but absent in various places.

More strange, if the URL is "file:///test%20a.xml", xmlNoNetExists is  
0, and the behavior is similar to "file:/test.xml"
All these have some boundaries effects.
In particular libxml2 fails to open "file:/test.xml.gz"

2-
If I call xmlReadFile with the URL "file:///test.xml;format=1",   
xmlLoadExternalEntity consider this URL as correct (fine!) but
xmlFileOpen will fail at
        unescaped = xmlURIUnescapeString(filename, 0, NULL);
        if (unescaped != NULL) {
            retval = xmlFileOpen_real(unescaped);
            xmlFree(unescaped);
        }

because the function xmlURIUnescapeString is not aware of the special  
characters ?, #, and ;.
Is this deliberate or could xmlFileOpen (and its companions) call a  
different function?

Best regards,
François.