Re: Well formedness Validation not proper in EXPAT

On 15 Feb, [email protected] wrote:
>  I am using expat parser to validate my XML file. But I have noticed
> that it does not check well formed ness completely

Expat does no DTD validation, but - as any other XML rec compliant
parser - does all well-formedness checks. 

> I have an xml tag in my XML file as
> 
>             <name>Devyani<name>>>>>>

Unfortunately, this isn't a complete example, but obviously only a
part of an XML file. You open two 'name' elements and you've a little
bit PCDATA. There isn't nothing bad about that other that it isn't a
complete XML file. If I try something like

  <doc><name>Devyani<name>>>>>></name></name></doc>

or

  <doc><name>Devyani</name>>>>>></doc>

then both documents are accepted by expat - and that is correct. There
is nothing special about > within PCDATA element content.

> While parsing the file with such an entry the Expat parser does not
> throw any error. Is there a way such check can be done within expat?

Please provide a small, but complete example file.

> Xerces parsers do this validation and throw an error for this but Expat
> does not do so. :-(

If you've an XML file, and Xerces claims a well-formedness error and
expat does not, then one of the two parsers is wrong. Well-formedness
errors must be reported. Either there is really one, then expat should
report it, or there isn't one, then Xerces shouldn not report
one. Again, please provide a small, but complete example, which shows
the problem.

rolf