Hi John,
> For some reason, the Squiggle in the Batik I have checked-out from SVN > (and not updated for a few weeks) is giving an error opening certain SVG > files. > Neither Batik or the document have changed in the last few weeks [...] Could you provide some more information like the specific Batik revision number, Java version and operating system (at a minimum)? A reduced test case would be great! ;-) > [...] when I try to open an SVG document that does not contain this line at > the > top: > > <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd";> > > I get this exception: > > If I add the omitted line then everything is fine again. But given that I > used to be able to open SVG files containing nothing more than the > <svg></svg> tags and that nothing has changed in either the document or in > Squiggle itself, what could possibly be causing this exception? Are there > some external factors that influence SVG document validation? Works for me. This is pretty weird, so some loose thoughts follow: * Those "at com.sun.org.apache.xerces" suggests you've left Apache Xerces out of the class path. Xerces is apparently also shipped with older Java versions (although apparently an ancient version of Xerces). A related thing was already raised in a previous thread [1]; * Have you tried validating the source using the W3C validator? It has been (somehow recently [2]) updated and should be a lot better now. * Are you including an XML preamble? Though I've tested and shouldn't make a difference, maybe using non ANSI encodings within the document could suggest something as the above); Although quite off-topic, while in the midst of experiments in order to clear up for a possible interaction with SVG version property, I've noticed that setting version to "1.2" (attaching a modified version of "gradients.svg" of Batik samples) seems to cause clip paths not to be applied as expected (note the behavior of radial gradient near the bottom versus the original version). Was it some change in the specification or did something slip through my mind? I've used Squiggle from revision 772054 on Java 1.6 update 12 (Windows Vista SP1) for this test. This seems to be in need of further investigation... > Thanks, > -JCT Hope this helps, Helder Magalhães [1] http://www.nabble.com/why-rename-xercesImpl.jar-to-xerces_2_5_0.jar--td20034830.html#a20185161 [2] http://validator.w3.org/whatsnew.html#t2009-03-26
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