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Re: Difficulties with catalog

• From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
• To: Christophe Marchand <cmarchand@oxiane.com>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:16:18 +0200

On 18.7.2018 21:45, Christophe Marchand wrote:
> For next XML Prague, I promise I'll learn the whole xml-catalogs
> specification ! ;-)

OK, we will give you badge only if you will correctly resolve dozen of
difficult test cases ;-)

> But there is something strange : if I parse xml file with an InputSource
> where systemId is not set, the import.dtd is expanded to import.dtd, as
> a relative path, and import.dtd was not found into catalog. Doesn't
> matter, having null systemId is always a bad practise...

AFAIK, JAXP is underspecified in this area, so result really depends on
actual parser you are using and other factors as well. Kind of dark
magic. :-(

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  • Difficulties with catalog
    • From: Christophe Marchand <cmarchand@oxiane.com>
  • Re: Difficulties with catalog
    • From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
  • Re: Difficulties with catalog
    • From: Christophe Marchand <cmarchand@oxiane.com>