• To: "Larry Fillion" <larry.fillion@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: need a [ in an ATTLIST
• From: "Rob Lugt" <roblugt@e...>
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:36:20 +0100
• References: <IHEGINBPOILJHJECFCBHKEHGCCAA.larry.fillion@c...>

From: "Larry Fillion" <larry.fillion@c...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: RE:  need a [ in an ATTLIST


> I find it interesting that the default value can have the '['
>
> <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute1 (value1|value2) "value[">
>
> >
> > The following is a DTD snippet that I am trying to get to work.
> >
> > <!ELEMENT myelement         EMPTY>
> > <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute1 (value1|value2) #REQUIRED>
> > <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute2 (value1|value2|value[) #REQUIRED>
> >
> > The issue is that I need to have a potential value for myattribute2 to
be
> > "value[".
> >
> > The first attribute "myattribute1" works just fine, but when I add the
> > "value["
> > to the list of potential values, I get the following error when I try to
> > parse an
> > XML file (it never makes it passed the parsing of the DTD)
> > javax.servlet.ServletException: Name tokens must not start with "["
> > characters.
>
Hi Larry, your parser is correct to disallow "[" in an enumerated type.
Each enumeration value must be a token that satisfies the NmToken
production, which consists only of NameChar characters.  See
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-NameChar

As for the parser allowing a default value containing the "[" - this is a
bug.

Regards
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
http://www.elcel.com/

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