Re: unparsed entity... well-formdness...

[Tinny Ng]

The parser issues the error as "validation error" instead of
"well-formedness error" (if you turn on validation, you can see the error).

I guess the rationale was because of

3.3.1

Validity constraint: Entity Name

Values of type ENTITY must match the Name production, values of type
ENTITIES must match Names; ==>*** each Name must match the name of an
unparsed entity declared in the DTD. ***<==

So the parser just issues "validation error" if no matching declaration is
found.

May be we should clarify with the XML spec committee and see which one
should be used.....

Tinny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Fran�ois Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:28 AM
Subject: unparsed entity... well-formdness...


> from the xml spec:
>
> -----
> 4.1 Character and Entity References
> [...]
> Well-Formedness Constraint: Entity Declared
>  In a document without any DTD, a document with only an internal DTD
subset
> which contains no parameter entity references, or a document with
> "standalone='yes'", the Name given in the entity reference must match that
> in an entity declaration
> -----
>
> So I understand that a xml file with only an internal DTD containing
> entities, the entities must be declared.
>
> so
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE img [
>   <!ELEMENT img EMPTY>
>   <!ATTLIST img src ENTITY #REQUIRED>
>   <!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "http://www.something.com/pic.gif"; NDATA gif>
>   <!NOTATION gif PUBLIC "gif viewer">
> ]>
> <img src="logo"/>
>
> must be well-formed and
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE img [
>   <!ELEMENT img EMPTY>
>   <!ATTLIST img src ENTITY #REQUIRED>
>   <!ENTITY logo SYSTEM "http://www.something.com/pic.gif"; NDATA gif>
>   <!NOTATION gif PUBLIC "gif viewer">
> ]>
> <img src="logo_entity_notdeclared"/>
>
> must not be well-formed since the entity "logo_entity_notdeclared" isn't
> declared...
>
> however, the SAXParser parse method seems to think that it's
well-formed...
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
> Jeff.
>
>
>
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