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RexTheRunt
RexTheRunt

Reputation: 181

Can not find declaration of element 'xml'

I'm getting a lot of parsing errors from python related to my xml file. I read elsewhere on stackoverflow that I should validate the xml file first.

I can't understand why this xml will not validate:

<xml><hive name="myprojectname">

XML validator says this Error: Can not find declaration of element 'xml'. Error Position: <xml><hive name="myprojectname">

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1143

Answers (2)

one_mile_run
one_mile_run

Reputation: 3404

This:

<xml><hive name="myprojectname">

doesn't validate in http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/, because first you have to check "Well-Formedness only" option there.

Second, it have to follow XML rules, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Well-formedness_and_error-handling. So this should look:

<xml><hive name="myprojectname"/></xml>

Upvotes: 2

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943150

The validator you are using appears to be a DTD based validator. Unless you tell it to check for well formedness only (in which case it won't check if your elements and attributes are correct, just that you open/close elements in a sane order, quote your attribute values, etc) then you must start the XML document with a Doctype so that it can find the DTD.

Upvotes: 1

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