[lxml-dev] FAIL: test_parser_target_entity

[Sergio Monteiro Basto]

Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 have 
the libxml2-2.6.32 and the libxslt-1.1.24 
and works nice . 
IMHO you should update libxml2 and libxslt. 

BTW: I am another happy user of lxml , a big thanks to lxml team ! 



On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 00:59 +0200, Cesar Ortiz wrote:
> I got it From subversion ;).
> I did not see the tar.gz from the site. I will have a look again....
> 
> Thank you for the quick answer.
> 
> -- Cesar
> 
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Cesar Ortiz wrote:
>         > In my system I´ve got libxml2 2.6.26 and libxslt 1.1.17, and
>         I tried to
>         > install lxml.
>         >
>         
>         > [phe1246 at pandora lxml]$ make test
>         > python setup.py  build_ext -i
>         > Building lxml version 2.2.alpha1-56897.
>         > Building with Cython 0.9.8.
>         
>         
>         No need to install Cython, BTW.
>         
>         
>         >
>         ======================================================================
>         > FAIL: test_parser_target_entity
>         (lxml.tests.test_elementtree.ETreeTestCase)
>         >
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         > Traceback (most recent call last):
>         >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/unittest.py", line 260, in run
>         >     testMethod()
>         >   File
>         "/home/phe1246/software/lxml/src/lxml/tests/test_elementtree.py",
>         > line 3417, in test_parser_target_entity
>         >     events)
>         >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/unittest.py", line 333, in
>         failUnlessEqual
>         >     raise self.failureException, \
>         > AssertionError: ['start-root', 'start-sub', 'end-sub',
>         'start-sub',
>         > 'data-this is an entity', 'end-sub', 'start-sub', 'end-sub',
>         'end-root'] !=
>         > ['start-root', 'start-sub', 'end-sub', 'start-sub',
>         u'data-this is an
>         > entityan entity', 'end-sub', 'start-sub', 'end-sub',
>         'end-root']
>         >
>         >
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         
>         
>         That's a known bug in libxml2 <= 2.6.26. I generally recommend
>         using 2.6.28 or
>         later, although this will only hit you if you use the target
>         parser together
>         with entities (as the test shows).
>         
>         
>         > NB: By the way, is it possible to get a .tar.gz version from
>         any place?
>         
>         
>         ... of lxml? Now I have to wonder how you actually installed
>         it. :)
>         
>         You'll find it on the web site and on PyPI.
>         
>         Stefan
>         
> 
> 
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