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

This is caused by a BC-break in XML_Tree. I'll upload a new release, when the XML_Tree issues are resolved.

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.

Until the package gets a new maintainer.

This bug has been fixed in CVS. If this was a documentation problem, the fix will appear on pear.php.net by the end of next Sunday (CET). If this was a problem with the pear.php.net website, the change should be live shortly. Otherwise, the fix will appear in the package's next release. Thank you for the report and for helping us make PEAR better.