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

Sanjeev Verma [CONTRACTOR] sanjeev.verma at Sun.Com
Wed Aug 20 10:05:04 PDT 2003 

See here:

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_dtd.asp

This is part of a XHTML tutorial. This page explains the three types of DOCTYPES 
a XHTML page can have. Any XHTML page should have ONE AND ONLY ONE of the 
DOCTYPES mentioned here.

This should help.

Regards

Sanjeev


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>No there's nothing like that. I'm using the jtidy utility to convert 
>regular html into xhtml, but I don't see anything like DOCTYPE.
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>Sanjeev Verma [CONTRACTOR] wrote:
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>>Is the DOCTYPE declared at the top of the xhtml file that you want to parse?
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>>Regards
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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:
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>>>>The reason for the exception you are seeing is not because your xml is 
>>>>      
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>>invalid, 
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>>>>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.
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>>>>This is XML parser behavior. Everytime it comes accross a entity, it will 
try 
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>>to 
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>>>>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,
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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
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>>>>>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 "®")."
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>>>>>Is this a bug or is there something I don't understand???
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>>>>Best Regards
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>>>>Sanjeev Verma
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Sanjeev Verma
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