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Subject: Re: libxml2: Wrong separator in XML_CATALOG_FILES?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:44:39 +0200
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> Hello Hartmut,
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Hartmut Goebel
> <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered that libxml2 sets the search-path-specification for
>> variable "XML_CATALOG_FILES" using space as separator, which is very
>> uncommon. The documentation for libxml2 does not state which separator
>> to use, while the docbook-tutorial [1] has an example using colons.
>>
>> So I'm curious whether the space is correct.
>>
>> [1] <http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.0/appa.html>
>
> From my experiences with the udisks package, the XML_CATALOG_FILES
> entries should be separated by space.

Specifically, catalog.c in libxml2 has this:

	    /* the XML_CATALOG_FILES envvar is allowed to contain a
	       space-separated list of entries. */
	    cur =3D catalogs;
	    nextent =3D &catal->xml;
	    while (*cur !=3D '\0') {
		while (xmlIsBlank_ch(*cur))
		    cur++;

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