[erlang-questions] [Patch] XMERL Attributes without whitespaces

[Loïc Hoguin]

It is *not* the W3C validator. The W3C validator is at 
http://validator.w3.org/

On 09/16/2014 11:53 AM, Eduardo Gurgel wrote:
> That's w3schools. Is it "the W3C" validator?
>
> On 16 September 2014 21:27, Eranga Udesh <eranga.erl@REDACTED
> <mailto:eranga.erl@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     What do you mean? I use the online validator at
>     http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp
>
>     - Eranga
>
>     On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED
>     <mailto:n.oxyde@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>         How did you feed XML to the W3C validator given that you can't
>         limit it to XML analysis?
>
>         Le 15 sept. 2014 à 13:22, Eranga Udesh <eranga.erl@REDACTED
>         <mailto:eranga.erl@REDACTED>> a écrit :
>
>          > Hi Motiejus,
>          >
>          > It is not just W3C parser, but it seems PHP/Java XML
>         parser(s) too support attributes without spaces.
>          >
>          > For one of our projects in Erlang, we had to customize xmerl,
>         because their existing XML parsers are supporting the XML syntax
>         without whitespaces in attributes. When validated the same XML
>         in W3C, no errors shown, so being a new solution, we had to
>         comply to their existing XML syntax.
>          >
>          > - Eranga
>          >
>          > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Motiejus Jakštys
>         <desired.mta@REDACTED <mailto:desired.mta@REDACTED>> wrote:
>          > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Eranga Udesh
>         <eranga.erl@REDACTED <mailto:eranga.erl@REDACTED>> wrote:
>          > > Hi,
>          > >
>          > > However W3C
>         (http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp) validates above
>          > > XLM without any errors. Therefore I guess xmerl better
>         support that.
>          >
>          > Hi, Udesh,
>          >
>          > according to XML 1-1 specification[1], your example does not
>         adhere to
>          > the grammar. Relevant grammar sections:
>          >
>          > [3]   S   ::=   (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+
>          > [40]   STag   ::=   '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
>          > [41]   Attribute   ::=    Name Eq AttValue
>          >
>          > Important bit: (S Attribute)*. As you can see, Attribute can
>         never
>          > follow Attribute without a whitespace between them.
>          >
>          > > Attached is a patch to fix that. It could help others too,
>         if that patch is
>          > > added to the xmerl package distributed in OTP distribution.
>          >
>          > Maybe that W3C parser supports non-spaced attributes is
>         coincidental?
>          > Or maybe I am looking at the wrong grammar?
>          >
>          > --
>          > Motiejus Jakštys
>          >
>          > [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec-starttags
>          >
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