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

[Sanjeev Verma [CONTRACTOR]]

Is the DOCTYPE declared at the top of the xhtml file that you want to parse?

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Sanjeev

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>So, assuming I want to do xhtml, can you tell me what I need to do? :-)
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>Sanjeev Verma [CONTRACTOR] wrote:
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>>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 "&reg;"". 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
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>>Sanjeev
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I'm parsing a file that looks like this....
>>><element>
>>>   &reg;
>>></element>
>>>
>>>But JDOM dies with this error....
>>>
>>>org.jdom.input.JDOMParseException: Error on line 2: Reference to 
>>>undefined entity "&reg;".
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>Seems to indicate it is ok....
>>>
>>>"In both SGML and XML, the ampersand character ("&") declares the 
>>>beginning of an entity reference (e.g., &reg; for the registered 
>>>trademark symbol "®")."
>>>
>>>Is this a bug or is there something I don't understand???
>>>
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>>Sanjeev Verma
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>>Market Development Engineering
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Sanjeev Verma
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