From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-12-28T03:59:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.8.7-p248 released.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 07:13:57AM +0900, Ed Howland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the update. This is kind of a sniggly little bug, but can
> really smack you in the face if you are doing any XML parsing and
> working with outside vendors, like with REST web services.
> 
> The REXML library has a bug parsing the xml declaration standalone
> attribute. It requires a space between the '=' and the value of the
> attribute.
> 
> <?xml version="1.0 standalone= "no" ?>
> 
> <?xml version="1.0 standalone="no" ?>
> 
> The latter is valid XML as well as the former, but does not parse
> correctly in REXML.
> 
>  It is documented in Trac Ticket #152 for the REXML Trac Wiki. This
> has been open for more than 20 months. I saw it on another ticket, but
> at the moment I can't find that one.

Can you send a link?  I didn't see this ticket in redmine.  I'll take a
look if there is a link.  Thanks!

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Aaron Patterson
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