[xml] non-quoted attributes invalid?

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From: Bryan E. Chafy (bchafy@ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 15:03:42 EST

My xml file has some attributes without quotes:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE client SYSTEM "client.dtd">
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>

When I try to parse, I get:

test.xml:3: error: AttValue: " or ' expected
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>
                             ^
test.xml:3: error: error parsing attribute name
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>
                             ^
test.xml:3: error: xmlParseStartTag: problem parsing attributes
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>
                             ^
test.xml:3: error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>
                             ^
test.xml:3: error: Extra content at the end of the document
<image href="img.gif" HEIGHT=0 WIDTH=22/>

When I looked at xmlParseAttValue, it looks like it does not check for
unquoted attrubutes (numerical). Maybee add something like:

   if (CUR == '"') { ... }
   else if (CUR == '\'') { ... }
   else if (CUR == "-" || (int)CUR ==atoi(CUR)){ // if not quoted, maybee a numerical value?
     ctxt->instate = XML_PARSER_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE;
      NEXT;
      ret = xmlDecodeEntities(ctxt, -1, XML_SUBSTITUTE_REF, ' ', '<', 0);
     ...
     } else { ... }
// not tested

Also, why is libxml called the xml library for gnome? What's so
gnome about it? It looks like a generic XML DOM/SAX parser usefull for
things other than just gnome.

Bryan 

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