XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>]

Thanks,

Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> --- 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.

To make it clear, my example was
<!DOCTYPE svg SYSTEM 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd";>
<svg/>

and no explicit mention of any namespace. The program I used (pstoedit) 
did not explicitly namespace any elements and this was the smallest 
example I could make that shows the bug (I had an XML declaration but 
assume that isn't the problem). I would assume - like Tatu - that the PE 
would not be replaced in Eliotte's example. I can't see how any 
namespaces could be applied to the svg element, so I am still mystified 
as to how the bug materializes.