XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 9:55 AM -0500 7/21/04, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> BTW, what is the nasty bug with FIXED attribute values in the internal DTD?

Imagine you have a document like this one:

<!DOCTYPE root [
  <!ATTLIST a b CDATA #FIXED "c">
]>
<root/>

If you build from that and reserialize, then what you get is this:

<!DOCTYPE root [
  <!ATTLIST a b CDATA #FIXED"c">
]>
<root/>

The white space between #FIXED and the value is lost so the document 
is no longer well-formed. Once I noticed the problem the fix was 
trivial. A corrected version is in CVS along with a unit test.

I noticed this yesterday when working through the examples in the 
Microsoft OASIS XSLT test suite. That it took this long to notice it 
indicates that it's not a very common problem in practice.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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