From: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@...>
Date: 2002-10-12T01:46:46+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML & Root Node

Matt:

Sorry to be late in replying. What I meant was leading space before the
document (aka root:) element, and after the XML decl. as in the example
below. Original mail attached below which lists two separate case - two
separate errors.

% 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/document.rb:234:in `parse':
attempted adding second root element to document (REXML::ParseException)


Could you copy me on any reply?

Thanks,
Tony

ps/
Using REXML version 2.5.2.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Gushee [mailto:mgushee@havenrock.com]
Sent: 07 October 2002 17:53
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: REXML & Root Node


On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:38:05AM +0900, Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) wrote:
> 
> 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?

Could you be a little more precise about what you mean by 'leading
whitespace'? If it's whitespace before the XML declaration, you should
be getting an error ... although I don't get an error either with or
without the whitespace. What version of REXML are you using (I'm using
2.5.1)?

> 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.?

Sure ... but the root method returns the root *element*, which is
another name for the document element. I guess whether that's intuitive
or not is in the eye of the beholder (it is for me), but since, for all
practical purposes, the root *node* is equivalent to the document
object, why would you need a method to get it anyway?

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee@havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/


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>