in reply to Weirdness (and bugfix for) XML::DOM ...
My reading of the XML specifications is that pipes in attribute-list declarations should not have spaces surrounding them.Enumerated Attribute Types ... [59] Enumeration ::= '(' S? Nmtoken (S? '|' S? Nmtoken)* S? ' +)' [VC: Enumeration] ... Examples of attribute-list declarations: ... <!ATTLIST list type (bullets|ordered|glossary) "ordered"> ...
Similarly, in XML 1.0 one ought not to surround pipes with spaces in element type declarations either:
Examples of element type declarations: ... <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|emph)* >
It is unfortunate that attr test contains what may be a malformed XML Document Type Declaration. However, the XML specifications contain no requirements for user-friendly error handling. All an XML parser has to do when encountering bad XML is stop. It need do no more.
Update: Our resident XML guru Mirod has pointed out to me that the S? in the XML rule I quoted means that the pipe can, indeed be surrounded by whitespace. He opines that there is an error, but that it is likely in XML::Parser on which XML::DOM is built.
Mirod points out that according to Rule 3
(see rule 3: S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+ >
Hence, S? means there can be an optional space around the '|'
Moral. I should learn to read XML specs better. Thanks to mirod for correcting this error.
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Re: Re: Weirdness (and bugfix for) XML::DOM ...
by mirod (Canon) on Feb 26, 2001 at 16:23 UTC |