[Zopexmlmethods-devel] Catalog/resolver support for libxml2

[Brent M H. <br...@ec...>]

I just sent in a patch to libxml2 that provides python bindings for
local catalog support.  It seems to work in simple tests, but I'd like
to test it with ZopeXMLMethods as well.  What's the best way to go about 
testing?

Looking through the unit tests, it appears that XML catalog support is 
tied into URN resolving.  Is this correct?  I know that libxml2 supports 
    external resolvers and even has python bindings (eg. 
libxml2.setEntityLoader(myResolver)), but ZopeXMLMethods doesn't seem to 
use it.  Has this been tried before?  I presume we would just need to 
write a resolver to map UR[LN]s into Zope objects.  Are there some 
pitfalls to watch out for?

-- Brent

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