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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Martin Gudgin <ma...@develop.com> on 2001/01/03 19:46:03 UTC

Namespace parsing bug in Xerces

Xerces 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 do not catch the following incorrect XML

<root>
  <b:bar xmlns:b='' />
</root>

The namespace rec explicitly states that if a prefix is present in the
namespace declaration then the attribute value cannot be the empty string.
See[1] third [Definition] starting 'If the attribute name matches
PrefixedAttName'

Martin Gudgin
DevelopMentor

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#ns-decl