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[david dai]

Hi,javaRancher,
Here is my xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GBK"?>
<!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd">
<personnel>
  <person id="Big.Boss">
    <name>
      <family>
        Boss
      </family> 
      <given>
        Big
      </given>
    </name>
    <email>
      [e-mail]
    </email>
    <link subordinates="one.worker two.worker three.worker four.worker five.worker"/>
  </person>
</personnel>

question:
when I use xercer2.0 parser parse the xml file,
the content of <family>,<given> and <email> are null,or empty.
but if I change the xml file to :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GBK"?>
<!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd">
<personnel>
  <person id="Big.Boss">
    <name>
      <family>Boss</family> 
      <given>Big</given>
    </name>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <link subordinates="one.worker two.worker three.worker four.worker five.worker"/>
  </person>
</personnel>

every thing is OK !
could some one give me the reason ?
Thanks
David

[CODE tags added by Val]
[ January 03, 2003: Message edited by: Valentin Crettaz ]

[John Lee]

The only reason seems that you can't leave space at the beginning of the content of the lowest level tag, if you want to have space, you have to use escape.
I think this may also have something to do with specific parser requirement.

[Roseanne Zhang]

My guess is the encoding GBK was the culprit.