Unexpected effect of 'Install add-ons in XXE installation director' in MacOS

The 'Install add-ons' settings givs us 3 options:

1) Install in user directory
2) Install in specific 'addon' directory inside the 'XXE installation 
directory'
3) Installation directory depends on the addon

For the time being, I have been uisng option 2).

But depsite this setting, the XHTM5L.xsd file was place inside a child 
'config' folder of the 'addon' folder. I said 'despite', but I do not 
find this any strange at all - after all, the 'config' folder is child 
of the 'addon' folder, and thus I found this to not contradict the 
settings.

Now, as I worked with the XHTML5.xsd file, I performed a uninstallation 
of the XHTML addon. Then I of course reinstalled the XHTML addon again. 
I needed to reset the XSD file.

I expected that the XHTML addon would be installed into the 'config' 
folder. However, to my surprise, I noticed that it was placed directly 
into the 'addon' folder. Given that  'config' folder is child of 
'addon', I did not link the change of location to my choice of option 2) 
as the add-on installation location. It also did not seem to cause any 
problems, so I did not care very much.

BUt then I switched to another MacOS user account on my computer, and 
opemned XXE inside that other user account. And now I got an error 
message from XXE which told that there something wrong with the XHTML 
adon. In fact, the XHTML mode did not work, when inside other user 
account.

I switched back to the current MacOS user account. And in order to 
investigate more, I chose to deinstall and reinstall the various DocBook 
addons and the DITA addons, just to see if their instasllation location 
was affected as well. I also deinstalled and reinstalled the 'DocBook 
fauthoring package'. And sure enough, everything went directly inside 
the 'addon' folder.

In addition, I got an error message from the 'DocBook fauthoring 
package' saying that it did not find the DocBook addon(s) inside the 
expected place, namely, inside the 'config' folder.

Conclusion: This seems to me like a bug. With regard to DocBook, then 
either there is a bug in the DocBook fauthoring package, or there is a 
bug in the 'Install add-ons' when it comes to option 2). Given the fact 
that option 2) also gives problems for XHTML (ann probably for DITA as 
well) when opening XXE in another user account on the same computer, I 
tend to think that the bug related to option 2) of the 'Install add-ons' 
setting.

Workaround: To solve my problem, I have switched to option 3) 
Installation directory depends on the addon.

Leif Halvard Silli

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