Bug 7007 – WFC Entity Declared and standalone documents

Bug 7007 - WFC Entity Declared and standalone documents

Summary:

WFC Entity Declared and standalone documents

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Validator
Component:	Parser
Version:	HEAD
Platform:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	0.8.6
Assigned To:	This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact:	qa-dev tracking

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Reported:	2009-06-09 14:40 UTC by Giovanni Campagna
Modified:	2010-03-02 18:58 UTC (History)
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Description Giovanni Campagna 2009-06-09 14:40:40 UTC

While validating an XML document, the violation of WFC Entity Declared (
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#wf-entdeclared ) is not reported if the entity is
declared in the external subset, even if the document is declared as
"standalone=yes".

An example of this behaviour:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="uft-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "http://example.org/test.dtd"><test>&test;</test>

where test.dtd contains:
<!ENTITY test "test content">
<!ELEMENT test (#PCDATA)*>

is considered valid by the markup validator, but it should be a Fatal Error
according to XML, because the document is not well-formed (and thus cannot be
valid).

(Tested using the version online at validator.w3.org)

Comment 1 Ville Skytt 2009-12-14 21:22:17 UTC

All undefined entity errors from XML::LibXML were explicitly filtered out to
avoid noise because the XML::LibXML preprocessor does not currently load
external DTDs in any case; the development version no longer filters them out
for standalone documents.

Comment 2 Ville Skytt 2010-03-02 18:58:57 UTC

Fix included in 0.8.6.