Unusual error with MSXML

[Chris Lovett]

I was able to fix the error on my machine by removing all references to
java.io.Serializable.  I will be posting a fixed version soon.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Ben Trafford [SMTP:btrafford at worldnet.att.net]
	Sent:	Monday, November 03, 1997 4:43 PM
	To:	xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
	Subject:	Re: Unusual error with MSXML

	Chris Maden wrote:
	> 
	> [Ben Trafford]
	> >       Has anybody tried out Microsoft's latest download of
MSXML?
	> > I'm finding that parsing the HTML 4.0 DTD causes it to crash
	> > out. Here's the error:
	> 
	> Why are you parsing the HTML 4.0 DTD with an XML parser?  It's
not
	> XML; it uses AND groups and exclusions.
	> 
	> True, MSXML should probably fail more gracefully on non-XML
data, but
	> hey - it's beta.

		Well, I often use parsers to find errors in DTDs. Since
XML is
	nominally SGML compatible, an XML parser should find the errors
in an
	SGML DTD (even if just to say that it's got a bunch of stuff XML
doesn't
	recognize). What I was hoping to do was to parse the DTD, read
the
	errors, then figure out what I need to change in the HTML DTD to
make it
	XML-compliant. I've already made a number of changes according
to the
	revised note on the differences between XML and SGML. 

		As I'm currently working with other people's SGML in my
professional
	life, I've found it very useful to parse their DTDs with James
Clark's
	NSGMLS, and to correct their DTDs from that. I'd hoped to do the
same
	thing with MSXML.

		In addition, not everyone's copy of MSXML crashes on
this DTD; I've
	been working with Simon St.Laurent on the problem, and his MSXML
parsed
	without crashing, using an older version of MSJAVA.DLL.

		Oh, and just in case Chris Lovett is reading this
message, thanks for
	your initial advice, Chris, but it doesn't appear to have had an
impact.
	I get the same error. Do you have any other suggestions?

	--->Ben Trafford

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