Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > Hello Hartmut, > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Hartmut Goebel > <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just discovered that libxml2 sets the search-path-specification for >> variable "XML_CATALOG_FILES" using space as separator, which is very >> uncommon. The documentation for libxml2 does not state which separator >> to use, while the docbook-tutorial [1] has an example using colons. >> >> So I'm curious whether the space is correct. >> >> [1] <http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/appa.html> > > From my experiences with the udisks package, the XML_CATALOG_FILES > entries should be separated by space.
Specifically, catalog.c in libxml2 has this: /* the XML_CATALOG_FILES envvar is allowed to contain a space-separated list of entries. */ cur = catalogs; nextent = &catal->xml; while (*cur != '\0') { while (xmlIsBlank_ch(*cur)) cur++; Ludo’.