Re: problem with XML stuff in CLLIB

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

John Wiseman wrote:
> The first one is pretty minor.  xml.lisp does not handle processing
> instructions.  For example,
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-pi> says "XML
> documents may, and should, begin with an XML declaration which
> specifies the version of XML being used" and gives the following
> example:
> 
>   <?xml version="1.0"?>
>   <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
> 
> This example causes an assertion to fail in xml.lisp.

this example works just fine for me:

(with-xml-input (v (make-string-input-stream "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
  <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>  <tag arg=\"val\">z</tag>"))
  (list (read v nil nil) (read v nil nil) (read v nil nil)))

(#<xml-obj xml [version="1.0"] 0 objects 0/25 chars #x19D0F579>
 #<xml-obj greeting [] 1 object 13/34 chars #x19D0F5C1>
 #<xml-obj tag [arg="val"] 1 object 1/22 chars #x19D13A59>)

> The next problem is a significant one: xml.lisp does not handle tag
> names that contain colons.  For example, the following is a perfectly
> well formed XML document that causes xml.lisp to error out:
> 
>   <xsl:value-of select="stylesheet" />

this is a problem.
can this "name-space:tag-name" thing appear only as a tag name or as an
attribute name too?