Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> 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’. Thanks for digging this out for us! This will be a good reference for when this question comes around next time! Maxim
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