Re: Bug in Amaya 9

Great, thanks. I do not usually use the cvs stuff; when will you release a new
version?

I.

Laurent Carcone wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>
>>Hello Ivan,
>>
>>Indeed it seems to be a bug as the attributes in the scope of a 'private'
>>namespace shouldn't be removed.
>>Can you send us (me) such a file so that I can more easily debug this problem ?
>
>
> This bug is now fixed in cvs version. Amaya no longer removes the attributes
> of 'external' namespace.
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent Carcone
>
>

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Received on Wednesday, 31 August 2005 10:08:14 UTC