Re: DOMImplementation.createDocumentType bug?

On 7/6/11 1:26 PM, David Flanagan wrote:
>
> DOM Core says this:
>
> The |createDocumentType(qualifiedName, publicId, systemId)| method 
> must run the following steps:
>
>> 1.
>>
>>     If qualifiedName does not match the |Name
>>     <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-Name>| production in XML, throw an
>>     |INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
>>     <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#dom-domexception-invalid_character_err>|
>>     exception and terminate these steps.
>>
>> 2.
>>
>>     If qualifiedName does not match the |NCName
>>     <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#NT-NCName>| production in
>>     Namespaces in XML, throw a |NAMESPACE_ERR
>>     <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#dom-domexception-namespace_err>|
>>     exception and terminate these steps.
>>
> The NCName production is just an XML Name minus the colon, so the 
> upshot is that if qualifiedName has a colon anywhere in it, it should 
> throw.
>
> That doesn't match Firefox's behavior, nor does it match ms2ger's test 
> here: 
> http://www.w3c-test.org/webapps/DOMCore/tests/submissions/Ms2ger/DOMImplementation-createDocumentType.html
>
> Should it read something like this?
>
>     1. If qname does not match the Name production, then:
>
>      a) If qname does not match NCName, throw NAMESPACE_ERR otherwise 
> throw INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
>
>      b) terminate these steps
>
>     David
>
My suggestion above doesn't actually make much sense.  More likely, the 
fix is to change NCName in step 2 to QName.  Is that what was intended?

     David