Re: [generguide-devel] Commented entities cause serious problem

[Sean W. <se...@ya...>]

--- Cameron Shorter <ca...@sh...> wrote:
> Sean, I'm not sure how to get XXE to edit entities. 
> When I open one of the 
> generguide files (eg: cvs.xml), I get the following
> error message from XXE:
> 
> <quote>
> Document
> "/home/cameron/.../generguide/guide/cvs.xml"
> contains reference such 
> as "&cvs_url;" wich are not managed by XMLmind XML
> Editor.  If you edit this 
> document with XMLmind XML Editor and save your
> changes, these references will 
> be replaced by their corresponding contents.
> </quote>
> 
> If you have an example docbook file with entities
> that XXE can edit, can you 
> please forward it through so that I can work out
> what we are doing wrong with 
> our entities.

From XXE 2.4 XXE does support ENTITIES. The prompt was
my request from about a year ago. Prior it would just
open the doc and insert the contents of any ENTITY in
the file. This was a problem.

The rule is as follows if you have a file with
ENTITIES, that do not themselves have ENTITIES within
them, then XXE will open the document and all ENTITIES
will be in GREY (non-editable). If an ENTITY has
ENTITIES within it, the contents of the root ENTITY
will be included in the file. AGain, ENTITIES that do
not have nested ENTITIES will remain as ENTITIES, but
if they have nested ENTITIES ... the cascade will
follow.

I can send you a file, but XXE will give you that same
message. I will send you a test file.

> 
> PS, Sean, I'm finding it a bit hard working out your
> availability and if you 
> are receiving my emails to generguide-devel.  I
> don't mind if you have other 
> things in your life which are higher priority than
> generguide, it just makes 
> it easier for me to know that:
> 1. you received the email.

I do get the messages.

> 2. you have not got time to work on it now, or you
> will get to it on the 
> weekend or something.

I am currently on a contract with SYSPRO
(http://www.syspro.com), so time is a little pushed. I
am busy in the background on the SRS and on the text
etc of gener. No worries mate, I am here and will drop
you a package.
 
> In particular, I was interested to hear your
> feedback on: 
>
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3180265&forum_id=33812

Missed that one:-((
Will attend.

Sean Wheller

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