[xml] ATTRIBUTE NAME validation problem

[murali <murulidharar huawei com>]

Hi,

 

W3c XML standard specifies that.

Attribute-list Declaration is:

[52]	AttlistDecl	::=	'<!ATTLIST' S Name AttDef* S? '>'
[53]	AttDef	::=	S Name S AttType S DefaultDecl

And

[5]   Name   ::=   (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*

 

 According to above productions,

<!ATTLIST doc : CDATA #IMPLIED>

is a valid declaration of attribute “:” for element doc.

But , currently LIBXML2 generates a error when it encounters this.

Java xml parser also has the same behavior.

Is this the correct behavior?. According to standard the behavior is incorrect.

Please let me know about this issue.

Thanking you,

murali