[XML-SIG] Bug or Delusion

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* John Eikenberry
| 
|  For an XML document to be valid, whenever an element type with an
|  #IMPLIED attribute appears and does not have a value, the XML procesor
|  must report the missing value and continue processing.

This quote is rather misleading. What it's trying to say (or should be
trying to say) is that #IMPLIED attributes are optional. Not the
value, but the whole attribute.
 
| In addition, in the ibtwsh.dtd (Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Simple
| Hypertext DTD), they have the 'compact' attribute defined like this:
| 
|  <!ENTITY % compact "compact (compact) #IMPLIED">
| 
|  <!-- Definition list -->
|  <!ELEMENT DL (DT|DD)+>
|  <!ATTLIST DL
|         %compact;

What this means is that DLs can look like:

<DL compact="compact">

or

<DL>

| And run the xvcmd over a test xml document. I get these errors:
| 
| xmysql.xml:4:10: Document root element 'package' does not match declared
| root element

This means that you have 

<!DOCTYPE something-other-than-package 

in your document.

| xmysql.xml:40:9: '=' expected
| xmysql.xml:40:11: One of '>' or '/>' expected
| Parse complete, 3 error(s) and 0 warning(s)
| 
| Are these errors the systems way of reporting the missing value (as the
| paragraph from my book states)? I thought that errors were fatal, and
| things to be avoided.

Not really, this is the systems way of reporting that your document is
not well-formed. All XML attributes _must_ have a value if they are
present in the start tag.

The XML grammar shows this clearly:

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Attribute>

| This seems to either be a mistake in xmlproc, or I'm not
| understanding this very well (probably the latter). If this is a
| mistake on my part, I'd appreciate any tips/advice.

Set

<setup c="c"/>

instead and it will work.

--Lars M.