[jdom-interest] JDOMException

[Simon St.Laurent]

At 07:51 PM 10/14/00 -0400, Gregory S. Hill wrote:
>Okay folks.  I've been lurking long enough.  Now it's time to pick some
>brains.  I'm feel particularly stupid, right now.  Any help would be
>most appreciated.
>
>I've got the following XML:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><Chart type="bar">
>    <ChartSize width="400" height="400" />
>    <ChartFormat graphType="ROWS" layout="VERTICAL" 3DDepth="10"

XML doesn't allow you to start element or attribute names with numbers.
Some parsers (notably AElfred) let this go by, but most don't.  3DDepth is
your problem.

You could stick a letter or underscore in front of it:
z3DDepth or _3DDepth.

Simon St.Laurent
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