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I thinks its simply a bug by all accounts since by VC: Name Token, values of type NMTOKEN must match production Nmtoken which is (NameChar)+ .. i.e. "Name" doesn't even come into play ... regardless both accept ":". -Jonathan > > > I have the following document: > > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > <!DOCTYPE foo [ > <!ELEMENT foo EMPTY> > <!ATTLIST foo > bar NMTOKEN #REQUIRED> > ]> > <foo bar="b:baz"/> > > When running it through the Oracle parser version 2, it returns an > error: > > Unrecognized text at end of attribute value. > at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLError.flushErrors(XMLError.java:221) > at > oracle.xml.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseDocument(NonValidatingP > arser.java:228) > at oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:111) > at test.main(test.java:19) > > The error does not occur if I remove the b: in the value of the bar > attribute: > > <?xml version="1.0" ?> > <!DOCTYPE foo [ > <!ELEMENT foo EMPTY> > <!ATTLIST foo > bar NMTOKEN #REQUIRED> > ]> > <foo bar="baz"/> > > As far as I can tell, this is a bug in the parser. My guess is that the > parser authors have mis-interpreted the following statement in the > namespaces spec to apply to the Nmtoken production as well as the Name > production. > > "An XML document conforms to this specification if all > other tokens in the document which are required, for XML > conformance, to match the XML production for Name, match this > specification's production for NCName." > > I assume this is incorrect, as it would mean that attributes with > prefixed values could never have type NMTOKEN. (Doing this is a useful > thing, as you get a check for valid prefixed element type names, which > is useful when you want attribute values to point to other elements.) > > -- > Ronald Bourret > Programming, Writing, and Training > XML, Databases, and Schemas > http://www.rpbourret.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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