[PEAK] failing test

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:57 AM 6/10/04 -0500, darryl wrote:

>FYI I've been getting this for a while when i run the unit tests.
>
>ERROR: checkSchemaLookup (peak.config.tests.ZConfigTests)
>----------------------------------------------------------------------

[snip]

>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/__init__.py", line 
> 31, in parse
>     parser.parse(filename_or_stream)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", 
> line 109,  in parse
>     xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/xmlreader.py", line 
> 123, i n parse
>     self.feed(buffer)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", 
> line 216,  in feed
>     self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", 
> line 395,  in external_entity_ref
>     self._source.getSystemId() or
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxutils.py", line 
> 515, in  prepare_input_source
>     f = urllib2.urlopen(source.getSystemId())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 129, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 324, in open
>     type_ = req.get_type()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 226, in get_type
>     raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
>ValueError: unknown url type: 
>/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ZConfig/doc/schem a.dtd
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ran 668 tests in 10.886s
>
>FAILED (errors=1)

It looks to me like you have the xml-sig package (_xmlplus) installed, and 
it's choking on the DTD filename.  Why, I don't know.  Perhaps you should 
contact the XML SIG?  AFAIK, it's perfectly normal to use a local 
filesystem path as a "system ID" in an XML file's doctype declaration, so I 
don't see what the problem is.

Interestingly, under plain Python 2.3 without the xml-sig package 
installed,  I get a different error, saying that the file is not 
found.  That is, there's no problem with it being a pathname, it just 
apparently computes the *wrong* pathname!

In both cases, this seems like a bug in Python 2.3's XML handling to me, 
since Python 2.2 works just fine, and when I use XML editing tools on files 
with such "system ID"s they work just fine.