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Posted to c-dev@xerces.apache.org by Gregory Vaughan <gv...@ameritech.net> on 2000/05/31 19:21:17 UTC

parsing DTDs containing parameter entities

I'm trying to use the xerces-c parser on a DTD containing parameter entities. I can obtain content specifications for element declarations using DTDElementDecl::getFormattedContentModel(),  but this seems to blow up on an element declaration containing a parameter entity reference -- it returns "ANY" as the content model for that element declaration, and for subsequent declarations.

Was wondering if anyone else noticed this problem.

Re: parsing DTDs containing parameter entities

Posted by Gregory Vaughan <gv...@ameritech.net>.
If I compile the "EnumVal" example and run it against the attached XML DTD, it reports "ANY" as the content model for the <from> and <to> elements 

<from> is declared using a parameter entity
<to> is declared simply as (#PCDATA)

I've tried both the latest stable release and a recent nightly release

thanks

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dean Roddey 
  To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:33 PM
  Subject: Re: parsing DTDs containing parameter entities


  Can you give a small example that exhibits this problem?

  --------------------------
  Dean Roddey
  The CIDLib Class Libraries
  Charmed Quark Software
  droddey@charmedquark.com
  http://www.charmedquark.com

  "Give me immortality, or give me death"

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Gregory Vaughan 
    To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org 
    Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:21 AM
    Subject: parsing DTDs containing parameter entities


    I'm trying to use the xerces-c parser on a DTD containing parameter entities. I can obtain content specifications for element declarations using DTDElementDecl::getFormattedContentModel(),  but this seems to blow up on an element declaration containing a parameter entity reference -- it returns "ANY" as the content model for that element declaration, and for subsequent declarations.

    Was wondering if anyone else noticed this problem.

Re: parsing DTDs containing parameter entities

Posted by Dean Roddey <dr...@charmedquark.com>.
Can you give a small example that exhibits this problem?

--------------------------
Dean Roddey
The CIDLib Class Libraries
Charmed Quark Software
droddey@charmedquark.com
http://www.charmedquark.com

"Give me immortality, or give me death"

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gregory Vaughan 
  To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:21 AM
  Subject: parsing DTDs containing parameter entities


  I'm trying to use the xerces-c parser on a DTD containing parameter entities. I can obtain content specifications for element declarations using DTDElementDecl::getFormattedContentModel(),  but this seems to blow up on an element declaration containing a parameter entity reference -- it returns "ANY" as the content model for that element declaration, and for subsequent declarations.

  Was wondering if anyone else noticed this problem.

Re: attachments (was parsing DTDs containing parameter entities)

Posted by Joanne Bogart <jr...@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>.

Gregory Vaughan wrote:
> 
>    Part 1.1    Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>            Encoding: 7BIT

-- 
Gregory,
  Would you please not send attachments to this mailing list?  
There is no reason not to include plain text inline.  (And binary
attachments should only be sent to people who are expecting them.)
Also, could you please configure your mailer to keep line width
to a reasonable maximum, like 70 or 80 characters?

                            Thanks,
                                    Joanne

Joanne Bogart
jrb@slac.stanford.edu