XML and broken external links, known issue?

[Fabio Rinaldi <ri...@ifi.unizh.ch>]

Hi,

this is just to report on another minor problem. If I enable xml
links (in skinconf.xml, I changed the value of 'disable-xml-link' from
true to false), then during creation of the site I get a number of
error reports on broken links that I do not get otherwise. However,
the site seems to be generated correctly anyway.

Apparently, all "external-refs" (as declared in site.xml) are reported
as broken under this  condition. If I disable again the xml links,
then also the error reports disappear.

I do not see why the external links should cause this problem: am I
misunderstanding something? Is this a known issue?  

Regards,
Fabio

Re: XML and broken external links, known issue?

[Fabio Rinaldi <ri...@ifi.unizh.ch>]

Dave Brondsema writes:
 > > this is just to report on another minor problem. If I enable xml
 > > links (in skinconf.xml, I changed the value of 'disable-xml-link' from
 > > true to false), then during creation of the site I get a number of
 > > error reports on broken links that I do not get otherwise. However,
 > > the site seems to be generated correctly anyway.
 > 
 > Enabling xml links is not very common and so this is probably is a bug 
 > we need to fix.  I am creating a bug report in our issue tracker.
 > 

a little correction:

On closer inspection I verified that it is not all external links: only
external links that are within files which are placed in a
subdirectory of xdocs. 

I.e. if a file containing external links is
placed in the xdocs directory, the links are processed correctly.
If it is placed in a subdirectory, they are not.

Fabio

Re: XML and broken external links, known issue?

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

Fabio Rinaldi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is just to report on another minor problem. If I enable xml
> links (in skinconf.xml, I changed the value of 'disable-xml-link' from
> true to false), then during creation of the site I get a number of
> error reports on broken links that I do not get otherwise. However,
> the site seems to be generated correctly anyway.
> 
> Apparently, all "external-refs" (as declared in site.xml) are reported
> as broken under this  condition. If I disable again the xml links,
> then also the error reports disappear.
> 
> I do not see why the external links should cause this problem: am I
> misunderstanding something? Is this a known issue?  
> 
> Regards,
> Fabio

Enabling xml links is not very common and so this is probably is a bug 
we need to fix.  I am creating a bug report in our issue tracker.

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