Re: [xml] Not-Well formed document parsed successfully

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:06:56AM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    I am currently involved in testing LibXml, while doing the same I came
>    across  an anomaly, apparently characters which are not allowed inside
>    comments are being parsed successfully. Its something like this---
> 
> 
>    <!DOCTYPE book [
> 
>    <!ELEMENT book ANY>
> 
>    ]>
> 
>    <!-- IllegalChar #x0e
> 
>     in p02:  -->
> 
>    <book/>
> 
> 
>    The  comment  in the above snippet contains an illegal character #x0e,
>    however  Libxml  parses  this  successfully,  even  though  it's not a
>    well-formed  document.  I  am not sure whether this is allowed or not,
>    can some one help me out.

  What version ? There was such a bug that I fixed in 2.6.24 IIRC.
And to provide a test case for this use an attachement as sending it as mail
content is completely unreliable.

Daniel

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