Description: ------------ The reference tool xmllint (http://xmlsoft.org) does not issue a single warning when validating my files, whereas XML_DTD dumps several pages of errors. It looks like the xml parser is not correctly set up, treating white space between tags as CDATA. xml file : http://samalyse.com/ln/0005.php dtd file : http://samalyse.com/ln/0006.php Reproduce code: --------------- <?php require 'XML/DTD/XmlValidator.php'; $validator =& new XML_DTD_XmlValidator(); echo "Performing DTD validation : "; $test = $validator->isValid('i18n.dtd', 'i18n.xml'); if ($test) { echo "OK\n"; } else { exit ("FAILED : " . $validator->getMessage() . "\n"); } ?> Expected result: ---------------- Performing DTD validation : OK Actual result: -------------- Performing DTD validation : FAILED : line 22: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <translation2> line 78: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <translation2> line 23: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <languages> (repeated 8 times with different line numbers) line 24: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <lang> (repeated 35 times with different line numbers) line 79: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <pages> line 140: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <pages> line 207: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <pages> line 80: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <page> (repeated 6 times with different line numbers) line 81: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <string> (repeated 44 times with different line numbers) line 141: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <page> (repeated 6 times with different line numbers) line 142: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <string> (repeated 51 times with different line numbers) line 208: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <page> (repeated 172 times with different line numbers) line 209: <#PCDATA> not allowed under <string> (repeated 172 times with different line numbers)

Having the same behaviour, i have found how to fix. Just apply following patch into XML/DTD directory: --- XmlValidator.php.orig Wed Jan 19 16:37:34 2005 +++ XmlValidator.php Wed Jan 19 16:37:02 2005 @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ foreach ($node->children as $child) { // a text node if (!strlen($child->name)) { - $children[] = '#PCDATA'; + if (strlen(trim($child->content))) + $children[] = '#PCDATA'; } else { $children[] = $child->name; }

Downgrading XML_Tree from 2.0.0RC2 (beta) to 1.1 (stable) seems to fix this issue. Check the following bugs : http://pear.php.net/bugs/1575 http://pear.php.net/bugs/2457

whats the status of this bug?

Well, it looks : open. Or in a more verbose manner, it's : waiting for XML_Tree authors to decide how they want to handle whitespace. For now just downgrade XML_Tree, you'll be fine.