XML catalog with fetch:xml

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:13 PM Andy Bunce <bunce.andy at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Using a recent 9.1 Beta on windows. > I create an XML catalog at c:\tmp\mycatalog.xml > > <catalog prefer="system" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > <uri > name="http://nowhere.com/doc" > uri="file:///c:/tmp/doc.xml" /> > </catalog> > > Then in the GUI > > fetch:xml("http://nowhere.com/doc", > map{"catfile": "C:\tmp\mycatalog.xml"} > ) > > It goes to nowhere, I was hoping to get back c:/tmp/doc.xml > Should this work? > > /Andy >

On 25 September 2018 at 09:28, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Currently, XML catalog files will only be evaluated by the XML parser, > which will be called after the addressed resource has been located and > retrieved. In other words: The specified catalog file will be > evaluated indeed, but only for URIs that occur within the specified > XML document: > > fetch:xml('file.xml', map { > 'catfile': '/path/to/catalog.xml', > 'dtd': true() > }) > > file.xml: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "bla/blu.dtd"> > <xml/> > > catalog.xml: > <catalog prefer="system" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc: > entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="bla/" > rewritePrefix="file:///path/to/dtd/" /> > </catalog> > > Hope this helps (a little), > Christian > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:13 PM Andy Bunce <bunce.andy at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Using a recent 9.1 Beta on windows. > > I create an XML catalog at c:\tmp\mycatalog.xml > > > > <catalog prefer="system" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc: > entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> > > <uri > > name="http://nowhere.com/doc" > > uri="file:///c:/tmp/doc.xml" /> > > </catalog> > > > > Then in the GUI > > > > fetch:xml("http://nowhere.com/doc", > > map{"catfile": "C:\tmp\mycatalog.xml"} > > ) > > > > It goes to nowhere, I was hoping to get back c:/tmp/doc.xml > > Should this work? > > > > /Andy > > >

Andy Bunce <bunce.andy at gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 25. Sep. 2018, 14:38: > Ok, Thanks for the info it is what I guessed, but I note the "currently" :) > > It would be good, long term, to look to matching the Saxon capabilties > here [1], part of which (xslt) are covered by this issue [2]. > > And related: I wonder sometimes about a "xmldb:" uri scheme and a custom > resolver that could be passed to 3rd party validation and transform > libraries to allow them to access BaseX db resources. I seem to remember a > number of issues on the list that could be related to the saving temp > copies of db resources to the file system as seems to occur currently. > > No doubt this would be a big task, if it is even possible :) > > /Andy > > [1] http://www.saxonica.com/documentation9.5/sourcedocs/xml-catalogs.html > [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1405 > > On 25 September 2018 at 09:28, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Andy, >> >> Currently, XML catalog files will only be evaluated by the XML parser, >> which will be called after the addressed resource has been located and >> retrieved. In other words: The specified catalog file will be >> evaluated indeed, but only for URIs that occur within the specified >> XML document: >> >> fetch:xml('file.xml', map { >> 'catfile': '/path/to/catalog.xml', >> 'dtd': true() >> }) >> >> file.xml: >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "bla/blu.dtd"> >> <xml/> >> >> catalog.xml: >> <catalog prefer="system" >> xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> >> <rewriteSystem systemIdStartString="bla/" >> rewritePrefix="file:///path/to/dtd/" /> >> </catalog> >> >> Hope this helps (a little), >> Christian >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:13 PM Andy Bunce <bunce.andy at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Using a recent 9.1 Beta on windows. >> > I create an XML catalog at c:\tmp\mycatalog.xml >> > >> > <catalog prefer="system" >> xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> >> > <uri >> > name="http://nowhere.com/doc" >> > uri="file:///c:/tmp/doc.xml" /> >> > </catalog> >> > >> > Then in the GUI >> > >> > fetch:xml("http://nowhere.com/doc", >> > map{"catfile": "C:\tmp\mycatalog.xml"} >> > ) >> > >> > It goes to nowhere, I was hoping to get back c:/tmp/doc.xml >> > Should this work? >> > >> > /Andy >> > >> > >