Hi, I recently filed bug #337584, about how libxml-xpath-perl fails in the absense of a network connection when an online DTD is specified in the file being parsed (the actual failure seems to come from libxml-parser-perl, perhaps I should have filed the bug there?).
It ends up that I was using xpath in debian/rules to build php-cache-lite, php-pager, and php-simpletest, all of which need to extract information from PHP Pear package.xml files. This is done in a generic way using peark.mk which has already been submitted to cdbs, and is generically useful for packaging other Pear packages. Not having received a response from the libxml-xpath-perl maintainer, and not uncovering any way to avoid this networkless failure through my own uninformed research, I thought I would see if anyone here could offer any suggestions on the matter. While I can always work around this problem by using xmlstarlet, it somehow appeals to me to actually have a command line xpath utility, and libxml-xpath-perl is the one that I was able to uncover in Debian. Further, it strikes me as incorrect for xpath to outright fail when unable to load the DTD from the network. While it might issue a warning, it should be possible to nonetheless apply the xpath to the document (as far as I can tell). Could someone with a bit more experience than I in the XML/Perl area please advise me on how to approach this issue? Is there a reasonable modification that could be made to either libxml-xpath-perl or libxml-parser-perl, to allow more reasonable (or configurable) behavior in the absence of a network connection? thanks, Charles -- Uncle Rube Buys tube One week Looks sleek Like sheik Burma-Shave http://burma-shave.org/jingles/1930/uncle_rube
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