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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:13:00 -0700
From: Edwin Goei <edwingo@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: problem with Crimson parser ('%' sign in attribute default)
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Daniel Vogelheim wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a problem when trying to read XML files with the Crimson 1.1
> parser. The Crimson page refers me to this list.
> 
> The problem appears to be a '%' character in an attribute default value.
> The relevant DTD fragment looks like this:
> 
> <!ATTLIST nspace:element nspace:attribute CDATA "100%">
> 
> As I understand the XML spec, this should be OK, and in fact several
> parsers I have tried work fine with this. However, if I try to process
> files that refer this DTD with Crimson, the parser aborts with an error
> message pointing to the line above.
> 
> Can someone confirm whether this is a Crimson bug, or is it rather a
> problem in the DTD itself?

This bug was fixed recently.  If you check out the code from CVS, you
will get the fix.  I am about to create a new crimson distribution,
also.

-Edwin

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