Re: XML doesn't validate but won't say why...

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Eric C. Weaver <weav@sigma.net> wrote:

>I tried validating the following document:
>   http://flat5th.homeip.net/weav/dtd/shipconf2.xml
>(it's complete with supplied external references).
>
>The validator says it's not valid XML but gives no specific error messages.
>Is something in my supplied XML or in the external references crashing the
>validator, perhaps?

You have an error in your DTD; the content model is ambiguous. When the
current token is the 1st occurrence of «CandidateListIndicator», both the 1st
and 2nd occurrences of "ArtifactFormatIndicator" are possible.

We have a bug/limitation in the Validator in that it doesn't report errors in
the DTD back to the user. For various (stupid) technical reasons it may be a
while before this issue is addressed.

Thanks for the catch, and the feedback, though. It was very helpfull in
tracking down this issue. I've logged it as Bug #301 —
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=301> — if you want to follow
its progress.

- -- 
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