Re: Facing problem reading comments data, need help
Jason Hunter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.jdom.general |
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Michael Kay wrote:
>> It's a malformed XML document. ...
>
>> JDOM sounded off stating that the data is not legal for a JDOM comment:
> Comment data
>> cannot start with a hyphen, giving an IllegalDataException.
>
> Where does it say that a comment cannot start with a hyphen? The rule is
> that it cannot contain two consecutive hyphens, and it cannot end with a
> hyphen.
Good point. I figured Rusty did the right thing with the Verifier code,
but looking at the BNF:
Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->'
That's just a fancy way to say no two consecutive hyphens, not an
exclusion of a leading hyphen.
-jh-
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