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  • From: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>
  • To: XOM interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with "Missing scheme in absolute URI reference"
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:18:29 -0800 (PST)

--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> 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

I think this is correct, if snippet above is accurate: PEs are only resolved
in DTD subsets. In this case reference is within regular xml content, so it
is not recognized as PE. Perhaps intention was to use a General Entity
instead, which would work as expected.

-+ Tatu +-









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