On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 17:19 +0000, Rainer Pruy wrote: > > Hi Ian, > the "Exception" occurs with cocoon "html" serializer. > That tries to serialize a stream of SAX events. > It is not really obvious, what settings for the xml library (xalan here) > are in effect. > > So does it come down to the syntax of loose.dtd being valid? > And thus the xalan exception is misguided? > (And I should ask there...) A DTD is neither XML nor HTML. It will not parse correctly with an XML or HTML parser. _ Ian > > Thanks for any clarifications.... > > Rainer > > Ian B. Jacobs schrieb: > > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:35 -0600, Rainer Pruy wrote: > > > >> > >> The file served at the URL mentioned above causes parsing errors. > >> > > > > Hi Rainer, > > > > Parsing in what context? > > > > The file in question is a "DTD"; it is not XML or HTML. DTDs have their > > own syntax (described in SGML). > > > > _ Ian > > > > > >> The problem is the following sequence of lines (starting with line 30) > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> --> > >> <!ENTITY % HTML.Version "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > >> -- Typical usage: > >> ---------------------------------------------- > >> The second line is starting an entity definition that obviously is not terminated by a "<", > >> while the the third line looks like there should start a comment (with a "<"missing)? > >> > >> Can this be fixed, or am I missing something here? > >> > >> Regards > >> Rainer > >> > >> > >> > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260-9447Received on Monday, 21 January 2008 22:19:41 GMT
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