- From: Ken Klose <ken.klose@imedium.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:08:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
I'm trying to use Xerces (java) to parse the simple HTML document below.
I've tried both versions 1.4.4 and 2.0.0b3.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My first HTML document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello world!
</BODY>
</HTML>
Both offer a similar error: "[Fatal Error] strict.dtd:81:5: The declaration
for the entity "ContentType" must end with '>'". Looking at the referenced
DTDs http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd and
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/HTMLlat1.ent I see numerous ENTITY declarations
with comments intermingled such as:
<!ENTITY % ContentType "CDATA"
-- media type, as per [RFC2045]
-->
Is this intermingling valid? If so why would Xerces barf on it? The XML
1.0 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006) mentions in section
2.5 Comments that "[comments] may appear within the document type
declaration at places allowed by the grammar" but the grammar for entity
declarations defined in 4.2 does not include comments between the opening <!
and closing >.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Ken Klose
Received on Thursday, 6 December 2001 16:32:14 UTC