Re: [MacPerl-Modules] XML::Parser crasher

[Matt Morse <matt@apple.com>]

Thanks for testing this on SunOS.

As for the error message, I'm still mystified. According to the my understanding of XML, the doc is well-formed.  Of
course, I could be missing something.  However, if (in the test document below)  you change the tag named
"Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group" to another valid tag name such as "aTag", the parser doesn't complain (at least running
XML::Parser 2.20 on MacPerl).


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Class>
<Interfaces-Implemented-or-Adopted-Protocols-Container>
<Interface-or-Protocol-Group-Container>
    <Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group>EOPropertyListEncoding</Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group>
</Interface-or-Protocol-Group-Container>
</Interfaces-Implemented-or-Adopted-Protocols-Container>
</Class>

So, that might suggest that "Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group" isn't a valid XML tag name, but I can't see any problem
with it with regard to the XML spec. (http://www.textuality.com/sgml-erb/WD-xml-lang.html).  Very frustrating!

Matt



"Paul J. Schinder" wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:25:53PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
> } At 12.18 -0400 1999.07.19, Matt Morse wrote:
> } >I'm not sure of a good way to isolate the problem, but (after many
> } >reboots), I've learned that if I rename the
> } >Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group tag, the problem goes away. (However,
> } >I'm not in control of the tag names, so renaming isn't an option.)
> } >Also, if another element is injected inside the
> } >Head-Interface-or-Protocol-Group element, the parser doesn't crash.
> } >
> } >Many of these tags are long and have hyphens, so I wonder if that could
> } >be a problem (although I believe they are valid XML tag names).
> }
> } I don't know much about the module, but did you try it on another platform?
>
> Here's what happens on SunOS 4.1.4, using XML::Parser 2.23 (since 2.24 is
> busted):
>
> leprss% !per
> perl xml.pl
> test.xml not well-formed:
>
> not well-formed at line 7, column 0, byte 360 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-sunos/XML/Parser.pm line 153
>
> I know nothing about XML, but if the module is to be believed,
> something is wrong with it.
>
> }
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