[jdom-interest] Bug in JDOM or not ????????

[Chris]

So, assuming I want to do xhtml, can you tell me what I need to do? :-)

Sanjeev Verma [CONTRACTOR] wrote:

>Hi Chris:
>
>The reason for the exception you are seeing is not because your xml is invalid, 
>because as you rightly said, it is! The error message says: "Reference to 
>undefined entity "®"". What it means is that the DTD of this XML does not 
>define this entity.
>
>This is XML parser behavior. Everytime it comes accross a entity, it will try to 
>resolve it as defined by the DTD. So, if the XML does not have a DOCTYPE 
>declaration at the beginning, or the DTD declared in the DOCTYTPE does not 
>define this entity, then this problem will occur. Check to see which is the 
>reason for failure in your case.
>
>Regards
>
>Sanjeev
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm parsing a file that looks like this....
>><element>
>>   &reg;
>></element>
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>>But JDOM dies with this error....
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>>org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 2: Reference to 
>>undefined entity "&reg;".
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>>My understanding is that &reg; is valid XML. Certainly it is part of XHTML.
>>
>>The spec I read here.....
>>
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/Overview.html#issues
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>>Seems to indicate it is ok....
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>>"In both SGML and XML, the ampersand character ("&") declares the 
>>beginning of an entity reference (e.g., &reg; for the registered 
>>trademark symbol "®")."
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>>Is this a bug or is there something I don't understand???
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>Sanjeev Verma
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