On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:22:29PM +0100, Stefan Knorr wrote: > 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": > ---- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE example PUBLIC "example" "http://example.org"; [ > <!ENTITY % myentities SYSTEM "entities.ent"> %myentities; > ]> > <example> > <title>Test</title> > </example> > ---- > > and an entities file, "entities.ent": > ---- > <!ENTITY entity "entity"> > ---- > > Then I run > $ xmllint dummy.xml > > For some reason, xmllint now throws away "%myentities;". I also > noticed that it does not seem to care about the name of the entity file > referenced in the XML. If I try to reference &entity; from > the XML, xmllint will complain about a missing definition. > > What do you say? > > > Regards, > > Stefan.
libxml2 does not fetch external entities unless asked for since it is a security hazard, unless you trust the source. This has been the default for some time. See xmllint flags like --valid --noent or --loaddtd if you want to activate this. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
