Re: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3040

[Pavani Mukthipudi <Pa...@Sun.COM>]

Xerces 1.4.x doesn't report any error when it sees a prefix with an empty 
namespace name. Only when the prefix is used, a check is made and error is 
reported. In your example, you are not using the prefix hence it doesn't report 
the error. This is indeed a bug.


Pavani


> From: "Julian F. Reschke" <ju...@greenbytes.de>
> To: <pa...@india.sun.com>
> Subject: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3040
> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:10:29 +0200
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> Hi,
> 
> so do you say that Xerces indeed reports the error?
> 
> I can't reproduce this. My test case is:
> 
> case 3:
>         try {
>           doc = DomBuilder.parse ("<foo xmlns:x=''/>");
>           fail ("did not catch invalid NS declaration");
>         }
>         catch (org.xml.sax.SAXException ex) {
>           // expected
>         }
>         break;
> 
> where the first line gets a NS-aware parser from JAXP (with a "strict" error
> handler enabled) and parses the string.
> 
> 


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