- From: Tom Epperly <tepperly@llnl.gov>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:59:03 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 03:36:18 -0500 (EST) > From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> > Message-Id: <200001310836.BAA40433@skew.org> > To: www-html@w3.org > Subject: xml:space incorrectly declared in all 3 XHTML 1.0 DTDs > > Hi, > > In all 3 XHTML 1.0 DTDs there are declarations of an xml:space attribute > as an enumerated type with only one possible value, 'preserve'. This is in > violation of the XML 1.0 Recommendation which states that when declared, > the xml:space attribute must be an enumerated type with only two possible > values, 'default' and 'preserve'. > > Validating parsers (MSXML and Xerces) are choking on the DTDs. Why wasn't > this corrected before the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation was announced? Is it > too late to fix it? I have the same comments and questions. I am trying to use Xerces, http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html, to validate some XHTML, and it is choking on the XHTML 1.0 DTDs. Tom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Epperly Center for Applied Scientific Computing Phone: 925-424-3159 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fax: 925-424-2477 L-661, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551 Email: tepperly@llnl.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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