problem with Xerces?

[Michel Goossens <Mi...@cern.ch>]

I have the following small XML file (bonneidee.xml):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE bonneidée [ 
  <!ELEMENT bonneidée (#PCDATA)>
]>
<bonneidée>XML est une excellent idée !</bonneidée>
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It parses correctly with xp, the oracle and rxp parsers, but
Xerces 1.1.3 and 1.2.0 with JDK 1.1.6 and 1.2.2 on Unix give
me problems, e.g. if I type the following command

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java -version 1.2.2 sax.SAXCount bonneidee.xml 
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I get the following output

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java.lang.NullPointerException: 
        at
org.apache.xerces.readers.AbstractCharReader.scanQName(AbstractCharReader.java:859)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.scanElementType(XMLDTDScanner.java:3075)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDTDScanner.java:1085)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDocumentScanner.java:2177)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.access$0(XMLDocumentScanner.java:2133)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:882)
        at
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:380)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:861)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:900)
        at sax.SAXCount.print(SAXCount.java:152)
        at sax.SAXCount.main(SAXCount.java:372)
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Using the TreeView class yields the output shown.

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java -version 1.2.2 ui.TreeView bonneidee.xml 

START createUI:bonneidee.xml
START refreshUI:bonneidee.xml
START getRoot:bonneidee.xml
Error: Invalid XML document could not get ROOT
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Is there something wrong with my file or my xerces setup? I have used
xerces Java since a long time and have never come across such a problem.

Thanks you your help. mg

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