[XOM-interest] Problem with "Missing scheme in absolute URI reference"

Elliotte Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Thu Jan 1 17:14:49 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.
> 

I may have spoken too soon. libxml agrees with xerces:

~/tmp$ xmllint --loaddtd tests.xml<?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 xmlns="%SVGNamespace;"/>


There's still a real bug here, but it's likely in the DTD design, not 
Xerces. Pretty obviously, the DTD does not say what its authors 
intended. Again, I claim this as a win for XOM, since it detected the 
bug when both Xerces and libxml let it pass without comment. :-)

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