12 2002-10-24 21:51:00 +0000 XML Parser does not detect whitespace before XML Decl. 2016-05-18 18:46:32 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator Parser 0.6.0b1 All All RESOLVED FIXED http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/chars-before-xmldecl.html P3 major 1.0 29651 1 link link BRANSTORM_69Q brantgurganus2001 egil www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 14 0 link 2002-10-24 21:51:00 +0000 Reported by Björn Höhrmann: http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/chars-before-xmldecl.html is [...] <?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>...</title> </head> <body> <p>...</p> </body> </html> [...] That's an invalid XHTML 1.0 Strict document (note the CRLF preceding the XML declaration). Now the HTML Validator <URL:http://validator.w3.org:8001/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. bjoernsworld.de%2Ftemp%2Fchars-before-xmldecl.html> says it's valid. That's bad. The Site Valet XML Validator finds the error <URL:http://valet.webthing.com:8000/xmltest/val.so? url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjoernsworld.de%2Ftemp%2Fchars-before-xmldecl.html> 25 1 link 2002-10-25 03:01:06 +0000 This is a known issue with OpenSP and SP. For some reason they do not detect whitespace before the XML Declaration -- or at least do not report it -- and according to Arjun Ray it's "impossible" for them to do it. I'm afraid my C++-fu is a bit too weak to figure out exactly what's going on. 359 2 brantgurganus2001 2003-02-21 16:12:24 +0000 If it is of any use, Mozilla seems to give a well-formed error with this. Since it is open-source, perhaps you can investigate how it detects the issue. 7663 3 murali1287 2006-01-06 08:26:37 +0000 xx 7665 4 murali1287 2006-01-06 08:33:55 +0000 *** Bug 14 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 8056 5 bjoern 2006-01-31 00:46:25 +0000 *** Bug 2785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 8057 6 egil 2006-01-31 01:33:58 +0000 I just want to add that since CSS validator detects incorrect placing of "<?xml...?>" then maybe the validator for XHTML should borrow some of it's code ;). 11311 7 438 ot 2006-08-30 02:20:35 +0000 Created attachment 438 invalid whitespace before xml declaration saved from http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/chars-before-xmldecl.html 15177 8 ot 2007-05-24 05:06:27 +0000 our using XML::LibXML in 0.8.0 (currently beta) takes care of this issue. 438 2006-08-30 02:20:35 +0000 2006-08-30 02:20:35 +0000 invalid whitespace before xml declaration 12-chars_before_xmldecl.xhtml application/xhtml+xml 288 ot Cjw/eG1sIHZlcnNpb249JzEuMCcgZW5jb2Rpbmc9J2lzby04ODU5LTEnPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIGh0 bWwgUFVCTElDICItLy9XM0MvL0RURCBYSFRNTCAxLjAgU3RyaWN0Ly9FTiIKICAgICJodHRwOi8v d3d3LnczLm9yZy9UUi94aHRtbDEvRFREL3hodG1sMS1zdHJpY3QuZHRkIj4KCjxodG1sIHhtbG5z PSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hodG1sIj4KICA8aGVhZD4KICAgIDx0aXRsZT4uLi48 L3RpdGxlPgogIDwvaGVhZD4KCiAgPGJvZHk+CiAgICA8cD4uLi48L3A+CiAgPC9ib2R5Pgo8L2h0 bWw+