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Benoit,
if it works in Xerces but not with MSXML I unfortunately
can't help. No, I don't know of any workarounds. The only
reason I'm writing you is because I would hate to see this
become your reason to not use the M12N. Can't you just
use a real XML parser ;-)?
Perhaps the ongoing work on M12N in XML Schema may
solve this problem once for all in the future, since the HTML
WG had to do a lot of tricks with DTDs to make the M12N
happen in the first place. With XML Schema, M12N seems
to be more straight-forward [1].
- Sebastian
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-m12n-schema/
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: MAISONNY Benoit
Gesendet: Fr 28.06.2002 14:08
An: 'www-html@w3.org'; 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
Cc:
Betreff: [xml-dev] XHTML modularisation causes strange error
with MSXML
Hello,
I wrote a DTD for a type of aeronautical document, using XHTML
Modularisation. This worked fine until I tried to validate the
DTD and
sample documents with MSXML4 SP1 (and earlier). Needless to say
they
validate with Xerces and ElCel's xmlvalid (and even with XMLSpy,
after
adding a space into empty parameter entities).
I found some messages on xml-dev[1] and www-html[2] related to
MSXML in the
context of XHTML m12n and 1.1, but I can't find any
solution/workaround for
the following error message (output by xmlint.exe, Microsoft's
validator):
A name was started with an invalid character.
URL: file:///H:/eAIP/_dev/xhtml/eAIP/sample7-id.xml
Line 00001: &&
Pos 00002: -^
As you can expect, that file begins with <?xml ... and not with
&& or
whatever.
A page[3] on microsoft.com explains this can be caused by
encoding issues,
but it is not my case: I checked the files at byte level to be
sure (they
are UTF-8). It doesn't seem to be an OS issue neither (same on
NT4 & win98).
I suppose it's a bug in MSXML and I won't wait for MS to correct
it for me
:-)
So my question is rather: what causes this error? Is there a
workaround? (I
am not against a small change in the DTD that would magically
please MSXML.)
Should I give up XHTML m12n and instead adapt XHTML 1.0
extensively to suit
my needs? (not that I want to!)
Thanks for any help and sorry for cross-posting,
Benoit
[1] http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00502.html
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00616.html
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2002May/0036.html
[3]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebte
am/h
tml/webteam08062001.asp
......................................................................
Benoit MAISONNY
benoit.maisonny@eurocontrol.int
eAIP development & support
http://www.eurocontrol.int/ais/ahead/eaip
EUROCONTROL Aeronautical Information
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