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Bug 628363 - Xinclude with xpointer produces incorrect output when included document contains comment elements
Xinclude with xpointer produces incorrect output when included document conta...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libxml2
Classification: Platform
Component: xinclude
2.7.3
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Daniel Veillard
libxml QA maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-30 19:51 UTC by bob_somerset
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description bob_somerset 2010-08-30 19:51:07 UTC 
doc1.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
    <xi:include href="doc2.xml"  xpointer="xpointer(/doc/para[2]/range-to(/doc/para[5]))"/>
</doc>

doc2.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 1</para>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 2</para>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 3</para>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 4</para>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 5</para>
    <!-- comment -->
    <para>Hello World 6</para>
</doc>

Command: xmllint --xinclude doc1.xml

Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
        <para>Hello World 2</para>
        
        
</doc>

Remove the comment elements from doc2.xml and the result is perfect:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
        <para>Hello World 2</para>
        <para>Hello World 3</para>
        <para>Hello World 4</para>
        <para>Hello World 5</para>
</doc>
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:24:27 UTC 
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