Re: [xml] Premature end of data in tag

[Gavin Sherry <swm linuxworld com au>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rich Salz wrote:

> > > > when I try to parse a xml file with tags containing special characters
> > > > (like CONTROL-M) I get an error "premature end of data in tag <tag name>".
> > >
> > >   yes it's not XML. The parser MUST stop its work and report a fatal error
> > > the set of acceptable characters in XML is described in the spec:
> > >
> > >    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Char
> >
> > That URL says that valid Char is
> >
> > Char    ::=    #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] |
> >    [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
> >
> > As such, the 8-bit characters Filippo referred to are valid. Or have I
> > missed something?
>
> Daniel probably meant NT-NameChar, not NT-Char.  Look at EBNF productions
> [5] and [4].  The special characters are not valid XML element names.
>         /r$

In my case, the offending character is inside a CDATA section which allows
Char.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-cdsection

   [20]    CData    ::=    (Char* - (Char* ']]>' Char*))

Gavin