Current behavior is just to assume all supplied paths are good; if a path is missing, xmllint will fail with a cryptic error message:
$ overdrive download DoesNotExist.odm
Generating random ClientID=B49967C8-61F8-4365-88E0-F5C822B13235
warning: failed to load external entity "DoesNotExist.odm"
This is an unusual error case, but when it does arise, the fatal "warning" can be confusing / misleading, and the proper solution of explicitly checking for existence as a preliminary step is trivial.
Current behavior is just to assume all supplied paths are good; if a path is missing,
xmllintwill fail with a cryptic error message:This is an unusual error case, but when it does arise, the fatal "warning" can be confusing / misleading, and the proper solution of explicitly checking for existence as a preliminary step is trivial.
See, e.g., #40, comments 3–4.