[XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-608453 ] xmlproc: fails on >16K entities

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Bugs item #608453, was opened at 2002-09-12 18:14
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Category: xmlproc
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Jürgen Hermann (jhermann)
Assigned to: Lars Marius Garshol (larsga)
Summary: xmlproc: fails on >16K entities

Initial Comment:
Without the patch below, xmlproc won't read external
parameter entities larger than 16K (actually, it will
only read the first 16K, resulting in
non-wellformedness errors and the like because parts of
the entity are missing).

RCS file:
/cvsroot/pyxml/xml/xml/parsers/xmlproc/xmlutils.py,v
retrieving revision 1.33
diff -u -r1.33 xmlutils.py
--- xml/parsers/xmlproc/xmlutils.py     22 Aug 2002
17:03:14 -0000      1.33
+++ xml/parsers/xmlproc/xmlutils.py     12 Sep 2002
16:04:16 -0000
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
         tmp = self.seen_xmldecl
         self.seen_xmldecl = 0 # Avoid complaints
 
-        self.read_from(inf)
+        self.read_from(inf, -1)
 
         self.seen_xmldecl = tmp
         self.flush() 

Testcase:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE root [
    <!ELEMENT root EMPTY>
    <!ENTITY % big-ent SYSTEM "larger-than-16K.ent">
    %big-ent;

]>

<root/>

and read it with "xmlproc_val test.xml".


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