RE: [xsl] Colon in entity reference error

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Jacqueline,

This looks like a straightforward validation error to me: somewhere in your 
process, your document is being validated against a schema (probably a DTD 
from the looks of it), which declares the 'source' attribute on the 'image' 
element as being one of the types reported in the error message (assuming 
the error message is correctly locating the error). These types have to 
match the XML production for a 'name', which restricts the character set. 
According to this parser, the colon ':' is illegal in a name value (I think 
that's a pretty strict reading of the XML Rec, myself), so the value 
'C:\Program Files\Sample\ToneFig3.tif' is being kicked out as invalid. (The 
backslash will also not be allowed in an XML name.)

It's not strictly an XSL problem: the document isn't even getting as far as 
the XSL. The solution is any of: (1) fix your data so there is an 
acceptable value there, or (2) fix the DTD (for example, change the 
attribute type to CDATA, which is more permissive), or (3) turn off the 
DTD-validation in your process (since it's optional from the XSL point of 
view) and live with the fact that your documents may not be valid. If you 
adopt the last course, you should be careful that your process isn't 
expecting any attribute value defaults to be provided by the DTD.

Cheers,
Wendell

You wrote:
>I keep getting the following error:
>
>Entity names, PI targets, notation names and attribute values declared to be
>of types ID, IDREF(S), ENTITY(IES) or NOTATION cannot contain any colons.
>Line 4, Position 1295
>
>with the arrow pointing to this point:
>
><image source="C:\Program Files\Sample\ToneFig3.tif"/>


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