sgmllib.SGMLParseError: unexpected ':' char in declaration

Harvey Thomas hst at empolis.co.uk
Tue Feb 25 13:17:35 EST 2003


Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
> [context lost to top posting.]
> 
> rjroy at takingcontrol.com (Robert Roy) writes:
> > Are you perhaps trying to parse XML with namespaces? ":" is not a
> > legal name character in SGML where it is in XML.
> 
> SGML lets you define what characters are legal in a name.
> 
>         <mike
> -- 

As long as you understand SGML declarations with their strange mnemonic (allegedly) names.

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