[XOM-interest] Problem with "Missing scheme in absolute URI reference"
Elliotte Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Jan 1 17:12:20 EST 2009
Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> Elliotte Harold wrote:
>> Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>>
>>> "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>"+
>>> "<!DOCTYPE svg SYSTEM
>>> \"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd\">"+
>>>
>>> "<svg/>",
>>
>> The problem with this one seems to be that Xerces is passing
>> "%SVGNamespace;" as the namespace URL for the root element, rather than
>> "http://www.w3.org/svg/whatever". This looks like an unresolved
>> parameter entity reference. Possibly it's a Xerces bug. I still need to
>> look further. But it does still feel like there's a real bug here that
>> XOM is warning you about.
>
This looks like a xerces bug. In particular, using sax.DocumentTracer,
with XOM nowhere in sight, on this document, I see that Xerces is firing:
$ java -cp
/opt/xml/xerces/xercesImpl.jar:/opt/xml/xerces/xercesSamples.jar
sax.DocumentTracer -v tests.xml
...
startElement(uri="%SVGNamespace;",localName="svg",qname="svg",attributes={{uri="",localName="preserveAspectRatio",qname="preserveAspectRatio",type="CDATA",value="xMidYMid
meet"}
XOM notices that Xerces is feeding it garbage and rightfully complains.
I count this as a victory for XOM's strict error handling. :-)
I do still have to check that the DTD is correct though. Assuming it is,
would you like to report the bug to Xerces, or shall I?
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
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