[XML-SIG] Bug or Delusion

[John Eikenberry]

On 26 Jan 1999, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> | 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.

Cool. I thought you just needed this in the dtd. I'd been spending all my
time trying to figure out the other problem. I hopefully would have
figured this out after looking at the top of an xbel document. :)

> 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>

Thanks for the clarification Lars. I guess I just assumed that you could
reproduce html in xml, and therefor (assumed) there had to be a way to
have a valueless attribute.


Thanks again,

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John Eikenberry
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