210505 - Mozilla crashes on opening XSEM.xml from SIL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 209089

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Peter Kirk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

Mozilla crashes when it tries to open a downloaded and saved copy of xsem.xml
from the XSEM Schema zip file (XSEM_Source.zip) link on this page. The three DTD
files in the zip archive are also saved in the same directory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download XSEM_Source.zip from
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=XSEM
2. Open the zip file, extract the contents to a local directory
3. In Windows Explorer, double click on xsem.xml

Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Opened xsem.xml

Possible duplicate of bug 209089? But this is not Firebird.

Comment 1

[Peter Kirk]

Tried renaming xsem.xml to xsem.xhtml. Same crash. So this is not a simple
duplicate of bug 209089 as described.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Peter, Crash bugs are never evangelism bugs. We may evangelize a site to work
around a crash bug but the primary problem is a product issue and should be
assigned to the appropriate product/component to get the issue fixed in the browser.

This has very similar stacks to bug 209089
	

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209089 ***

Comment 3

[Peter Kirk]

Tried opening this page in IE6. I got an error message relating to the line
<!DOCTYPE xs:schema SYSTEM "Validation/XSEM_spec.dtd">, for this DTD file is in
the wrong directory. Moved this and the other DTDs to the Validation directory.
Now IE6 gives a message that it cannot find StyleSheets/XMLSchema.xsl, relating
to the line <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="StyleSheets/XMLSchema.xsl"?>.
And Mozilla still crashes. StyleSheets/XMLSchema.xsl doesn't seem to be part of
the downloadable package, so it is not suprising that xsem.xml cannot be loaded.
But Mozilla shouldn't crash, it should give an intelligible error message, dare
I say like IE6 does.

This is again looking like bug 209089. Talkback identity is TB21316101G.

Comment 4

[Peter Kirk]

Bob, thanks for the clarification. I got a mid-air collision on this but
submitted my comments anyway as they may be helpful. You may need to resubmit
the changes you made.

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht]

this is indeed a dupe. The xhtml sink is the same as the xml sink, so they both
crash on the missing stylesheet for a local file