Well someone found the source/location of the bug, so that's a good first step.

I guess I'm an eternal optimist. ;-)

Wayne


On 3/1/06, Arnaud HERITIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This bug was open in august and isn't yet fixed. I'm not sure that the dom4j
> team is really active.
> Furthermore, we already tried to upgrade ours dom4j dependencies but we
> didn't succeed.
>
> Arnaud
>
>
> On 3/1/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Great news.
> >
> > Can you please keep an eye on this issue and report back when its
> > fixed? Then we can update poms to get the new dom4j, and finally put
> > this issue to rest. ;-)
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> > On 3/1/06, Lance Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Remember this issue?  Someone has found the location of the
> > defect.  See  Bugs
> > > item #1277785.
> > >
> > >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1277785&group_id=16035&atid=116035
> > >
> > > Maybe we will some some action on this.
> > >
> > > Lance
> > >
> > > On 12/8/05, Lukas Theussl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's a known issue: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPXDOC-111
> > > >
> > > > Nothing we can do about in xdoc, it's a dom4j bug.
> > > >
> > > > -Lukas
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Lance Bader wrote:
> > > > > In HTML there are tags that are forbidden to have content or end
> > tags,
> > > > > namely
> > > > >
> > > > > <area>
> > > > > <base>
> > > > > <basefont>
> > > > > <br>
> > > > > <col>
> > > > > <frame>
> > > > > <hr>
> > > > > <img>
> > > > > <input>
> > > > > <isindex>
> > > > > <link>
> > > > > <meta>
> > > > > <param>
> > > > >
> > > > > In XHTML, of course, everything needs an end tag, even if content is
> > > > > forbidden, and the xDoc plug-in correctly adds end tags while
> > generating
> > > > its
> > > > > XHTML output.  However, it adds explicit end tags instead of using
> > the
> > > > unary
> > > > > format.  For example, it expands <br> to <br></br> instead of the
> > unary
> > > > > <br/>.  Even if the XML source contains an explicit <br/>, the xDoc
> > > > plug-in
> > > > > converts it to <br><br/>.
> > > > >
> > > > > For our project, it is important for our XHTML files to be reusable
> > and
> > > > we
> > > > > have adopted a number of standards, both industry standards and
> > company
> > > > > standards, to assure that.  Compliance testing is performed with
> > > > Parasoft's
> > > > > WebKing application.
> > > > >
> > > > > I was dismayed to discover that WebKing, for these tags, considers
> > an
> > > > > explicit end tag a violation of "industry web standards".  It
> > considers
> > > > the
> > > > > unary format acceptable.  I can see their point; an explicit end tag
> > > > invites
> > > > > content between the start tag and the end tag and content is
> > forbidden
> > > > for
> > > > > these tags.
> > > > >
> > > > > If it was a perfect world, the xDoc plug-in would, either by default
> > or
> > > > by
> > > > > user configuration, use the unary format instead of explicit end
> > tags
> > > > for
> > > > > these tags.  I would rather not encourage a permanent special case
> > for
> > > > our
> > > > > XHTML.  Even a special post-build step to make the XHTML comply
> > could
> > > > cause
> > > > > unacceptable risk and effort.
> > > > >
> > > > > What do you think? Could the xDoc plug-in be enhanced?  Should it be
> > > > > enhanced?
> > > > >
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