Bug#605389: libxerces2-java: fails to XInclude when element xpointer refers to xml:id

[brian m. carlson]

Package: libxerces2-java
Version: 2.9.1-4.1
Severity: normal

Xerces supports XInclude with the "element" XPointer, which refers to
an ID.  However, while this works fine with ID attributes that are
defined in a DTD, it does not work if the IDs are declared using xml:id.
This makes the "element" syntax useless for including documents that do
not contain a DOCTYPE declaration, which includes many useful XML
formats (e.g. XHTML5).

It would be nice if Xerces would support this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libxerces2-java depends on:
ii  default-jre-headless [java2- 1:1.6-40    Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  gcj-4.4-jre-headless [java2- 4.4.5-2     Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gcj-4.5-jre-headless [java2- 4.5.0-10    Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  gcj-jre-headless [java2-runt 4:4.4.5-1   Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii  libjaxp1.3-java              1.3.05-1    Java XML parser and transformer AP
ii  openjdk-6-jre-headless [java 6b20~pre1-2 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo

Versions of packages libxerces2-java recommends:
pn  libxerces2-java-gcj           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages libxerces2-java suggests:
pn  libxerces2-java-doc           <none>     (no description available)

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