xmldiff-xmlrev fails to compile in the xslt file

[Andrew]

Binary package hint: xmldiff-xmlrev

xmlrev fails to execute:

xmlrev file1.xml file2.xml
compilation error: file /usr/share/sgml/stylesheet/xmldiff/xmlrev.xslt line 21 element attribute
xsl:attribute: The prefixed QName 'xmlns:x' has no namespace binding in scope in the stylesheet; this is an error, since the namespace was not specified by the instruction itself.

Debian bug number: 484768

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 4 12:54:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: xmldiff-xmlrev 0.6.8-4ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: xmldiff
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3113): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3159): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:3149): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Roel de Cock (ubuntulinux-spogelse)]

As far as I can see, xmlrev.xslt is broken in two ways.

Firstly, it contains
<xsl:attribute name="xmlns:x">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</xsl:attribute>
which is illegal and, I think, unnessecary.

But removing it probably isn't going to help very much because a bit later, xmlrev may call 3 templates xupdate:insert-before, xupdate:insert-after and xupdate:append which are simply not implemented.

I don't know how these things go, but someone may want to pass this on to upstream.