From: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@...>
Date: 2002-10-08T01:38:05+09:00
Subject: REXML & Root Node

Hi:

I'm getting errors from REXML with leading whitespace when I have an XML
Declaration - see below. (Problem doesn't show up when I omit the
Declaration.) Any ideas?

Also I'm not quite sure why the document element is returned by the root
method. Surely the root node is the outermost container which wraps document
element, PI's, XML Declaration, whitespace, etc.?

Thanks for any insights,
Tony

 

% cat test-rexml
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'rexml/document'; include REXML

doc = Document.new File.new('tmp.xml')

% test-rexml
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rexml/document.rb:234:in `parse':
attempted a
ding second root element to document (REXML::ParseException)

% cat tmp.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <a>
<b>
</b>
</a>

% test-rexml
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rexml/element.rb:686:in `base_parser':
malfor
ed XML: missing tag start (REXML::ParseException)

% cat tmp.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <a>
  <b>
</b>
</a>