- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:42:25 +0000
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- CC: www-archive@w3.org
Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
>> So far Philip Taylor (the author of
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Feb/0058.html ) has
>> found well-formedness holes in every XML-outputting system he has cared
>> to try.
>>
>> He even managed to make Validator.nu produce ill-formed output. The bug
>> was in the Xalan serializer--a widely distributed library written by
>> experts. (Astral characters were serialized as two numeric character
>> references for the corresponding surrogates.)
>
> Perhaps he'd care to take a whack at XOM one of these days?
Test code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
Element root = new Element("x", "x:&");
Document doc = new Document(root);
System.out.println(doc.toXML());
}
Output from XOM 1.1:
<x xmlns="x:&" />
The 'xmlwf' tool says: "STDIN:1:13: not well-formed (invalid token)"
(Alternate way of testing: "java nu.xom.samples.XMLPrinter
http://philip.html5.org/misc/ampersand-in-xmlns.xml")
But that's the only well-formedness error I've been able to find so far.
--
Philip Taylor
pjt47@cam.ac.uk
Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 16:43:00 UTC