Dear XML-SIG, I apologize if this is not the right place to direct my question, but I have not been able to find any forums with support for XBEL. If this is not the write place to direct these questions, please let me know where I can get some help. :c)
I am working on a master's thesis that argues for a standard to be established for internet bookmarks. My thesis investigates XBEL as a possible format for this standard. As en exercise, I have written an XML parser that transforms a Safari bookmarks file to an XBEL file. However, when I try to validate the XBEL file with the DTD, I have two re-occurring validation errors. One error that I continually get throughout my XML document is something like the following: -- Attribute value "09BDE5A6-6CE7-4137-AD4D-5FC6D380BFD5" of type ID must be a name This happens for every <bookmark id="someID"> tag that I use where someID does not start with a letter. Does XBEL only allow name ID's? Safari uses these id's that can oftentimes start with a number. Does this mean that for XBEL, you cannot use Safari's ID's? The second error that I get is something like the following: -- Attribute "file-version" must be declared for element type "metadata". This occurs for every single <metadata> element I have. For the above error, for example, the metadata element was <metadata owner="Safari" file-version="1"/>. From reading the DTD and looking at some XBEL examples, I was under the understanding that the metadata attribute was so that you could put any application-specific items. However, all of my application-specific items are not validating correctly. Any suggestions? I was unable to attach my xml file, as my email is getting reject as spam. So please let me know if you would like to see the XBEL file I'm trying to validate. Thank you very much -- I appreciate your help greatly! Carol Le _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
