Re: Well formedness Validation not proper in EXPAT

I would concur with rolf's interpretation. Note that section 2.4 of the
XML specification states:

The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) MUST NOT
appear in their literal form, except when used as markup delimiters, or
within a comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they
are needed elsewhere, they MUST be escaped using either numeric
character references or the strings "&amp;" and "&lt;" respectively. The
right angle bracket (>) MAY be represented using the string "&gt;", and
MUST, for compatibility, be escaped using either "&gt;" or a character
reference when it appears in the string "]]>" in content, when that
string is not marking the end of a CDATA section.

So, the < character in the character data would constitute a violation
of well-formedness. But, the same does not hold true for >. So, the
document is well formed and xerces is complaining about something it
should not complain about.

Reid.

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:24 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On 15 Feb, [email protected] wrote:
> > There was a typo in the example. It looks something like this
> > 
> > <doc>>>>
> > 	<name1>devyani</name1>>>>
> > 	<name2>raj</name2>
> > </doc>
> > 
> > My question is how can I catch such a problem since in my knowledge
> > EXPAT does not treat it as a WELL formed ness error but XERCES does.
> 
> What I see is perfect well-formed XML.
> 
> Which well-formedness error do you see, in your example?  What error
> msg does Xerces gives you?
> 
> If Xerces in fact doesn't parse your example XML, then that is a
> Xerces bug.
> 
> rolf
> 
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