From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 11:16:36 EDT
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 16:03, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote in
> > > This is an IE bug, if you're talking about Microsoft's
> > bugzilla, go ahead :)
> No, it's not. I have test three different XML parsers and all
> report the same error. I have also studied the DTD, and *has*
> incorrect syntax. You don't have to believe me; I encourage you to
> check with the official XML specification yourself. Here's the
> relevant section <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#elemdecls >:
That's where I've looked at.
>
> [45] elementdecl ::= '<!ELEMENT' S Name S contentspec S? '>' [VC: Unique Element Type Declaration]
> [46] contentspec ::= 'EMPTY' | 'ANY' | Mixed | children
>
> And here's the relevant section from the 'DTD':
> <!ELEMENT iw CDATA>
> As you can see, 'contentspec' must be 'EMTPY', 'ANY', Mixed or
> children. And no, Mixed doesn't include 'CDATA'. A correct element
> type declaration could be:
> <!ELEMENT iw (#PCDATA)>
or (CDATA) ?
I have to confess I didn't notice the parenthesis were mandatory. So ok,
this is bug.
> But this doesn't fix the numerous other syntax errors in the DTD,
> nor that the DTD doesn't define some of the elements used in
> current AbiWord documents.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is way more serious! However, since we're changing the document
format for the next version, it's very important to correct this in
future versions, and less important to correct it for the current dtd.
Hugs, rms
-- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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