Hi, I'd like to report what I think is a bug in Crimson (as obtained with Sun's JAXP 1.1 reference implementation.) I'm fairly new to XML, and I may be off-base here, so please bear with me. I'm trying to parse a MusicXML document (see http://www.musicxml.org) and Crimson is giving me org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Illegal ASCII character, 0xc2" (line number may be too low). when it encounters DTD's that have UTF-8 encoded characters in the comment fields. In the case of MusicXML, the character is a two-byte copyright symbol: ©. I believe that this is correct UTF-8, and that it should be parsed correctly. MusicXML is a complex hierarchy of DTD's, so I've boiled it down to a simple example which I think demonstrates the problem. An example document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE simple PUBLIC "-//Armhold//Simple DTD//EN" "http://pablo.rutgers.edu/~armhold/dtds/simple.dtd";> <simple> </simple> The referenced simple.dtd contains the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- A really simple DTD. Copyright © 2000-2001. --> When I try to parse this with Sun's example parser (http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp-1.1/docs/tutorial/dom/work/DomEcho01.java) I get the following: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Illegal ASCII character, 0xc2" (line number may be too low). at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.fatal(InputEntity.java:1038) at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.fillbuf(InputEntity.java:1010) at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.peek(InputEntity.java:841) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.peek(Parser2.java:3000) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeTextDecl(Parser2.java:2725) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.externalParameterEntity(Parser2.java:2806) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeDoctypeDecl(Parser2.java:1155) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:489) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305) at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:433) at org.apache.crimson.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:185) at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:161) at DomEcho01.main(DomEcho01.java:63) Removing the copyright chars from my DTD solves the problem. I'm using JDK 1.3.0 w/ JAXP 1.1. Can someone please confirm this as a bug, or enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks -- George Armhold Rutgers University Bioinformatics Initiative --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
