[xml] FW: Problem resolving relative URIs during catalog resolution, potential regression as of libxml2 2.9.2 (patch included)

[Matthias Pigulla <mp webfactory de>]

Hello all,

I posted this back in Nov 2016, see
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2016-November/msg00012.html for
details:


> TL/DR:
>
> ./testURI --base file:///some/where file
>
> Without patch: file:/some/file
> With patch: file:///some/file

This is a bug in resolving relative URIs, but also affects handling of XML
catalogs, depending on how internal file references are written.

I know this is open source and most of us are not working on this for a
living. So I¹d just make sure this does not get lost. Is the ML the right
place for such reports? Is a bug report better?

Can anyone confirm this is a bug and should be fixed?

Kind regards
Matthias