Problem with XML Catalog

[matsek]

Hi,

I am having problem with using an XML catalog. Hope someone can help.

I am validating a set of XML files using a Schematron schema. The schema references some external XML files for the assert tests, and loads these using expressions like "document('subdir/data.xml')". I have then an XML Catalog file, which I have added to the list of catalog files in the Preferences (at both Global and Project scope), and which contains mappings like this <uri name="subdir/data.xml" uri="localpath-to-xml-file"/>.

No matter how much I play around with the settings, the Catalogs log panel shows:

Description: Resolved URI: file:/C:/Program%20Files/Oxygen%20XML%20Editor%2014/subdir/data.xml file:/C:/Program%20Files/Oxygen%20XML%20Editor%2014/subdir/data.xml

That is, the catalog mapping seems to have no effect!

I am on v14.1. Thanks for help!

Regards,
Mats

[adrian]

Hi,

This is not going to work:

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<uri name="subdir/data.xml" uri="localpath-to-xml-file"/>

The problem is that @name has to be an absolute URI, and you're using a relative one. The reason this doesn't work is that the URI from document('subdir/data.xml') gets expanded to an absolute URI prior to being resolved by the XML catalog resolver. So the absolute URI ends up being: file:/C:/Program%20Files/Oxygen%20XML%20Editor%2014/subdir/data.xml

So, since you don't have an absolute URI, you should use uriSuffix instead:

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<uriSuffix uriSuffix="/subdir/data.xml" uri="localpath-to-xml-file"/>

Note that I've added a '/' before 'subdir' to make sure it won't match partial paths (e.g. thissubdir, thatsubdir).

Regards,
Adrian

[matsek]

Wonderful! Thanks Adrian.

Mats