unable to create a schema using a UNC file path

[MaryMenges]

Hi,

I'm unable to create a schema using a UNC file path. Local file paths work fine.
Example:

xsd_file_path = '\\host\share\file.xsd'
my_schema = xmlschema.XMLSchema11(xsd_file_path, defuse='always')

Error:
<urlopen error [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: '\\host\\share\\file.xsd'>

It looks like the UNC path is not being normalized correctly. Are UNC paths supported? Is it possible to fix this?

[brunato]

Hi,
sorry for delay in my response but supporting UNC paths involves a partial rewriting of the url normalization function. I will make this using, whenever possible, the support of pathlib library, so for example with an UNC path it will be:

    url = url.strip()
    if url.startswith('\\'):
        return pathlib.PureWindowsPath(url).as_uri()  # UNC path

[brunato]

Fixed with release v1.6.3.