Bug in Amaya 9

I have hit a strange bug with Amaya 9 (it is on Windows but I would not think it
is relevant).

I have an XHTML1.1 file with doctype and all the rest of it. However, I do one
more thing: I add some own attributes to my file. I do it in an XML proper
fashion, namely I use a namespace declaration in the <html> element and use the
namespace prefix.

I know it is not 100% kosher, because I do not add my internal DTD to the XHTML
DTD. In other words, from an DTD validity point of view it is not fully valid.

However, the reaction of Amaya 9 on this file is:

 - it accepts it without any warning as a legal and valid XHTML file (does not
ask the usual question whether I want to see the errors, edit the invalid file,
etc). I can therefore edit the file in XHTML, everything looks perfect.
 - however: it silently *removes all private attributes* from the file.

I think this behaviour is a bug.

[I use an XHTML file to create presentation slides, but the file is run through
a private XML processor partially controlled by those attributes...]

Ivan

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Received on Thursday, 4 August 2005 07:48:24 UTC