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Hi there,<br>
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I am using XEP as my engine to generate PDF. I encounter a problem
related to render an XML file with DTD.<br>
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The situation on my side is like the following:<br>
I have a DTD and an XML file. There a doctype definition row in the XML
like the following:<br>
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<font face="Verdana"><!DOCTYPE Book PUBLIC 'XXXXXXXXXXX'
'XXXXXX.dtd'[]></font><br>
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I can edit this XML file in XMetaL. XMetaL tells me the XML file is OK
when I validate the XML file. From this point, I think the DTD and XML
are both correct. <br>
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I have an XSL for rendering the XML to PDF. When I try to use XEP 4.9
(JDK1.5) to render it to PDF. I got the following error. <br>
<font face="Verdana"><br>
[error] Error reported by XML parser; SystemID: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/D:/XXXXXX.dtd">file:/D:/XXXXXX.dtd</a>;
Line#: 214; Column#: 27<br>
[error] javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Error reported by XML
parser<br>
error: formatting failed: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
org.xml.sax.<br>
SAXParseException: Not a name start character, U+23</font><br>
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The content at 214 is like the following:<br>
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<!ELEMENT TERM (EFFECT?, (#PCDATA|REFP)+) ><br>
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The XML parser tells me the DTD is incorrect. I changed above line
into the following. The error disappears.<br>
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<!ELEMENT TERM (EFFECT?, (REFP)+) ><br>
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It seems the XML parser did not recognize #PCDATA. It still try to
treat it as an element. <br>
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Do you have any idea about this?<br>
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Thanks very much<br>
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Long<br>
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