Re: [xml] Whitespaces within URI

[Michael Buchner <Michael Buchner onevision com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote
on 25.09.2008 18:13:31:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 06:05:10PM +0200, Michael Buchner wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote on 25.09.2008
17:28:42:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 03:22:57PM +0200, Michael Buchner
wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I have problems with URIs containing whitespaces using
the XSLT 
> > document() 
> > > > function. It seems to be a general problem in libxml2
when loading 
> > > > external documents, for example
> > > > C:/Program Files/test.xml
> > > 
> > >   by definition document() requires URI References,
and in URI space
> > > need to be escaped.
> > 
> > You mean 
> >     C:/Program%20Files/test.xml
> > should work?
> 
>   I don't think it will work
> 
> > > 
> > > > File protocol with %20 as whitespace escaping doesn't
work neither.
> > > 
> > >   now that's strange, are you sure you built the URI
file correctly ?
> > > Note that 'file' based URI are horribly undefined so what
an apllication
> > > or system may accept as a valid file URI may mean something
completely
> > > different for a different system using the same URI.
> > 
> > I have tried
> >     file://C:/Program%20Files/test.xml
> 
>   Well that's not a well formed URI, you asking to access
>   /Program%20Files/test.xml
> for user 'C' on machine ''
> 
> > but without success running on Windows XP SP2 32bit. By the way,
Windows 
> > Explorer doesn't resolve this file URL...
> 
>   which isn't surprizing either.
> 
> You can try
>   file:///C:/Program%20Files/test.xml
> which means 
>   file://localhost/C:/Program%20Files/test.xml
> 
> but basically all of this is not well defined by existing
> specifications, and apparently nobody want to take the risk of defining
> it 'properly' and break zillion of bad usages.

stupid mistake, that's it!

thanks a lot

> 
> Daniel
> 
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