Re: [xml] RelaxNG schema and entities file: "namespace warning : Namespace default prefix was not found"

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:54:23PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Consider this example:
>
> <!DOCTYPE foo [
> <!ENTITY comment '<comment id="comment.xml" />'>
> ]>
> <foo xmlns="http://foo.bar/ns/foo";>
> ...
> &comment;
> ...
> </foo>
>
> When I run `xmllint --noout --noent --relaxng foo.rng foo.xml' I
> receive:
>
> | namespace warning : Namespace default prefix was not found
> | ...
> | element comment: Relax-NG validity error : Did not expect element comment there
>
> But `jing foo.rng foo.xml' succeeds and does not complain. I have to add
> the xmlns attribute to <comment> for xmllint to succeed. Is this correct
> or an issue in xmllint? I wouldn't have expected, that I have to add the
> namespace to this entity. I thought it gets directly replaced.

  libxml2 being designed as an editing toolkit, and before XML
namespaces does not handle well this kind of namespace and entities
mixups. Best is to add the namespace declaration in ten entity, yes.

Daniel

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