Re: [xml] Glitch with external entity files; patch enclosed

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 16:35:38 EST

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:19:18PM -0600, David Lofquist wrote:
> A workaround is to modify context->directory to the DTD directory before a
> call to xmlParseDocument(context) to be the path to the DTD file (in Ken's
> case, "/dvl/fds/dtd/"). I think this works for DTDs on inter/intranets as
> well. It also seems to fit in with the spec to allow the default base URI
> be application-dependent.
>
> Is this an exploitation of libxml or an undocumented feature? :)

  well it is a dangerous use of a publicly available but undocumented
data structure :-)
  The correct way in the case the URI is broken is to implement a catalog
by using the DTD PUBLIC identifier instead of the SYSTEM (URI) one.

Daniel 

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