Re: xmllint stopped working?

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

Mike Maxwell wrote:
> It appears that xmllint has stopped working in recent CygWin versions.

Specifically with libxml2-2.6.20 or was it broken before you upgraded?

> Specifically, the use of an entity defined in an XML file triggers the 
> following:

Works with libxml2-2.6.16-2 on cygwin-1.5.17-1:

$ xmllint xmllint.problem.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE ParadigmDefn [
<!ENTITY Clitic2 "foobar">
]>
<ParadigmDefns xmlns="http://lodl.ldc.upenn.edu/ParadigmDefn.xsd"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://lodl.ldc.upenn.edu ParadigmDefn.xsd" 
Title="Paradigms">
    <POS category="V0">
        <Paradigm name="tenses" constant_features="3sgS-">
            <FeatureValueSet>
                <DisallowedFeatureValues> &Clitic2;
</DisallowedFeatureValues>
            </FeatureValueSet>
        </Paradigm>
    </POS>
</ParadigmDefns>


> ---------
>  > xmllint --noout --schema ParadigmDefn.xsd TestSuite/Paradigms.Defn.xml
> Unimplemented block at 
> /instsoft/libxml/uploaded/libxml2-2.6.20/xmlschemas.c:23832
> Element 
> '{http://lodl.ldc.upenn.edu/ParadigmDefn.xsd}DisallowedFeatureValues':
> Element content is not allowed, because the type definition is simple.
> TestSuite/Paradigms.Defn.xml fails to validate
> ---------
>
> These same files used to pass xmllint fine, and they still do when I run 
> xmllint on a FreeBSD system.

Which version?

> The xsd in question is too large to post in this msg, but here's a sort 
> of minimal XML file that will trigger the error:

How do I need to call it to reproduce the error?  At least when running
`xmllint Paradigms.Defn.xml` I get no error (Unimplemented block) with
version 2.6.20.


> ---------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE ParadigmDefn
>     [ <!ENTITY Clitic2 "foobar"> ]
>  >
>
> <ParadigmDefns xmlns ="http://lodl.ldc.upenn.edu/ParadigmDefn.xsd";
>                          xmlns:xsi 
> ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>                          xsi:schemaLocation="http://lodl.ldc.upenn.edu 
> ParadigmDefn.xsd"
>                          Title="Paradigms"
>  >
>     <POS category="V0">
>         <Paradigm name="tenses" constant_features="3sgS-">
>             <FeatureValueSet >
>                 <DisallowedFeatureValues> &Clitic2; 
> </DisallowedFeatureValues>
>             </FeatureValueSet>
>         </Paradigm>
>     </POS>
> </ParadigmDefns>
> ---------
>
> I'm not sure of the exact date when this started happening, but I just 
> noticed it yesterday.  I downloaded the latest CygWin update today, and 
> xmllint is still not working.
>
> BTW, I am inexperienced with XML, so it could be that the above is due 
> to s.t. that I'm doing wrong--but as I say, at least one other 
> implementation of xmllint accepts it.
>
> And it could be that there's a better place to report this bug.  I 
> looked for an libxml site on sourceforge, but only found libxml2 (= 
> libxml++).

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Gerrit
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