I am among the hordes trying to validate XML from Perl, hence am trying to
use nsgmls from James Clark's SP package. Before I take the step of using
the Perl SGMLS module that abstracts this executable's output, I thought I
would make sure NSGMLS worked from the command line (using -wxml of
course). When I use it, I keep getting error messages like these:
C:\PROGRA~1\SP\BIN\NSGMLS.EXE:<OSFD>0:41:26:E: value of attribute "name"
must be a single token
C:\PROGRA~1\SP\BIN\NSGMLS.EXE:<OSFD>0:42:28:E: value of attribute "name"
must be a single token
C:\PROGRA~1\SP\BIN\NSGMLS.EXE:<OSFD>0:117:23:E: character "/" is not
allowed in the value of attribute "name"
C:\PROGRA~1\SP\BIN\NSGMLS.EXE:<OSFD>0:137:23:E: character "/" is not
allowed in the value of attribute "name"
I have had similar problems using other validators, but thought they were
just buggy. Are you allowed to have spaces in attribute values in XML? How
about forward slashes? The XML 1.0 spec seems to indicate you can in the
BNF. Or are attributes named 'name' and 'type' special? Or do I have to set
more options to use nsgmls with XML documents? Or escape them as entities?
- Paul (Sleepless in Stoneham)
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