[xml] 2.9.3 exhibits strange behaviour when given external entity files

2016-02-09 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi all, I wanted to discuss this on the ML because I am not sure if this is a bug only on my distribution (openSUSE) or if this really comes from upstream... I have this file "dummy.xml": http://example.org"; [ %myentities; ]> Test and an entities file, "entities.ent":

Re: [xml] 2.9.3 exhibits strange behaviour when given external entity files

2016-02-18 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi again, > libxml2 does not fetch external entities unless asked for since > it is a security hazard, unless you trust the source. Okay, then that part of my observations was ~useless. In any case, the bigger issue is that I get back invalid XML from xmllint now (which I did not get 2.9.1 be

Re: [xml] 2.9.3 exhibits strange behaviour when given external entity files

2016-02-18 Thread Stefan Knorr
Hi again, Daniel, Sorry. I thought about my message again. Looked at the spec a bit and noticed where I went wrong: not having %entities; in there is totally fine from an XML standpoint... Consider this thread done. Stefan. ---