• From: Matthew Van Gundy <matt-xmldev@s...>
• To: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@g...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:46:34 -0800

Mukul Gandhi wrote:
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <doc xmlns="http://foo.com/foo">
>>   <foo:elem xmlns:foo="http://foo.com/foo">
>>   </elem>
>> </doc>
> 
> I thought, this is not well formed. Xerces-J 2.9.0 also reported so:
> 
> Line: 4, Column: 5, Message: The element type "foo:elem" must be
> terminated by the matching end-tag "</foo:elem>".
> 

Mukul,

Thanks for responding.  Xerces-J's behavior is consistent with the 
behavior I've seen in Gecko and Safari that prompted me to ask the 
question in the first place.  Both Gecko/20080110's and Safari 3.?'s XML 
parsers report the above example as a parse error as well, with very 
similar messages.

I'm trying to determine if triggering a parse error is the _only_ 
correct behavior, if it is open to interpretation, or if it is 
incorrect.  If you know of a way to determine which of these three 
possibilities is the case, I'd love to know.

Thanks,
Matt

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