Re: [docbook] imagedata EMPTY

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Elliotte,
If that isn't a typo in your error example, then xmllint is saying the 
content of imagedata starts with "mageobject>" and contains an <imagedata> 
element?  Normally xmllint's "got" message says what it found in the 
element.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook] imagedata EMPTY


> Bob Stayton wrote:
>> Hi Elliotte,
>> That is a strange error message, especially since your imagedata looks 
>> ok to me.  Which version of DocBook are you validating against?  Since 
>> you have an <alt> in your mediaobject, I presume it is DocBook 5.  When 
>> I cut and pasted your sample para into a DocBook 5 document, the 
>> document validated in xmllint 2.6.23.
>
> Yes, it is indeed DocBook 5; and it is strange. However I get very 
> similar messages from Xerces-J and xmllint, so I think it must be my bug:
>
> Java_Course_Notes.xml:32916: element imagedata: validity error : Element 
> imagedata content does not follow the DTD, expecting (info? , EMPTY), got
> mageobject><imagedata fileref='awt.gif' width='107px' 
> depth='140px'></imagedata>
>
> [Error] Java_Course_Notes.xml:32916:201: The content of element type 
> "imagedata" is incomplete, it must match "(info?,EMPTY)".
>
> One thing I considered based on the error message was whether it could 
> possibly expect an element named EMPTY. But I can't see that in the DTD. 
> I even tried that, but as expected it wasn't valid. Adding an empty info 
> element didn't fix it either.
>
> I'm sure there must be some crucial mistake, but so far I can't find it. 
> I guess the next step is to boil my 500 page document down to a simple 
> test case.
>
> -- 
> Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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