Re: [xml] Degenerate case

2019-09-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 09:26 -0400, Webb Scales wrote: > Is it possible that the error message is wrong? Like most parsers, if given faulty input the output is sometimes unexpected. I'm not a maintainer here, but i'd guess that a patch to detect the case of the document having no XML elements in

Re: [xml] Degenerate case

2019-09-17 Thread Webb Scales
Thank you for being so patient with me! I did look at the XML grammar, but I only got far enough to suggest that the prolog was optional.  I should have continued on, but I was confused by the error message from LibXML2 ("Extra content at the end of the document") which seemed to indicate that

Re: [xml] Degenerate case

2019-09-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 00:47 -0400, Webb Scales wrote: > Would a file containing just an XML comment, e.g., > > > > > be an acceptable input to LibXML2? Let's look at the specification of XML, https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ We see in section 2.1, [[ [Definition: A textual object is a well-fo

[xml] Degenerate case

2019-09-16 Thread Webb Scales
Would a file containing just an XML comment, e.g., be an acceptable input to LibXML2? In my particular case, it's reacting with "Extra content at the end of the document", and I'm trying to determine whether it is due to some other factor in my specific scenario.             Thanks!