Bug#605389: libxerces2-java: fails to XInclude when element xpointer refers to xml:id

[brian m. carlson]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> Hi Brian,

Hey.  If you want the submitter to see your reply, you need to use
-submitter or CC him/her directly; the BTS does not do it by default.

> Can you confirm that your issue is the same one reported upstream here:
> 
>   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1113

Yes.

> It looks similar; unfortunately upstream has passed on this for 4 years now...

My implementation does not verify the constraints required by the xml:id
specification, and it does not do additional normalization for types of
ID.  I'm happy to modify it so that it does.  I believe that should be
sufficient to handle xml:id in a conforming way with XInclude.

I can look into creating a specific feature for enabling xml:id
processing, if that's what upstream wants, as long as (1) they'll accept
a reasonable implementation, (2) they specify what URI they want to
use to refer to xml:id processing (e.g., for SAX), and (3) it is enabled
by default.  You can feel free to forward this to them; I have an Apache
bugzilla account, but not a JIRA account, and I'm not particularly
interested in creating one.  (Having two separate BTSes is silly, IMO.)

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