XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
> There is yet another crimson DTD bug (not present in xerces-2.6.2).
> The necessary files are attached below.
> [hoschek /Users/hoschek/unix/devel/nux] fire-java 
> nux.xom.tests.DTDBugTest test3.xhtml
> done parsing
> Exception in thread "main" nu.xom.IllegalDataException: Malformed 
> internal DTD subset: Illegal type (starts with "p") for attribute 
> "xml:space".

Without even looking at the test case, I think I can guess what's going 
on here. Crimson is making a common misreading of the 1st edition of the 
XML 1.0 spec which said:

A special attribute named xml:space may be attached to an element to 
signal an intention that in that element, white space should be 
preserved by applications. In valid documents, this attribute, like any 
other, must be declared if it is used. When declared, it must be given 
as an enumerated type whose only possible values are "default" and 
"preserve". For example:

    <!ATTLIST poem   xml:space (default|preserve) 'preserve'>

This was rewritten in later editions to make it clear that

<!ATTLIST poem   xml:space (preserve) 'preserve'>

and

<!ATTLIST poem   xml:space (default) 'default'>

were also legal.

I'm not sure whether or not I can work around this one, but let me see 
what I can do.

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