xml-dev - Re: Ambiguity in XML spec

[richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

In article <B1C2D4514427D2118C2E00104B3054A4D636B0@mail.upshot.com>,
Brown, Bryan <bryanb@upshot.com> wrote:

>Ok, well I have a parser that i wrote from scratch, and of the 83 or so
>productions this is the only one my parser has a problem with.

Well, to be blunt, that's something you have to fix in your parser,
either by changing your code or giving it alternative production rules
such as the ones you describe.  The grammar in the spec describes the
language correctly, and the productions in question can be used
directly with compiler-generators like yacc.

Incidentally, there's at least one case in the spec where the
productions *do* have a bug.  Productions 43 and 14 inadvertently
allow, say, <a>   ]]>   </a> (this will be corrected by a
soon-to-be-published erratum).  I believe this was found by someone
implementing a parser directly from the grammar rules.

-- Richard
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