[JDEV] Jabberd config file & namespaces

[David Waite]

This is the difference between a document being well-formed, and 
validated. Validation within Jabber is pretty impossible, as the server 
itself would have to validate all XML sent through it. Also, the rules 
for nonvalid XML are the same as parsing XML in general - you stop where 
the error happens; you cannot continue. This is inappropriate 
considering that a document in the Jabber sense is a collection of 
individual 'packets'.

The general rule is that which you don't comprehend, you ignore.

See if you can throw xerces into a non-validating mode, and everything 
should be dandy. It might be complaining because there is no handler 
registered with the java.net.URLFactory to handle "Jabber:" URIs. (I'm 
assuming xerces-j here). I haven't used xerces-J because previous 
versions had a quite annoying caching problem which made it totally 
unsuitable for Jabber client work.

-David Waite

Franck Mangin wrote:

>  Is the jabberd configuration file that ships with the distribution a
>valid XML file? 
>
>According to the w3c spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/), it
>seems like namespaces cannot contain ':', so a name such as
>jabber:config:jsm would be invalid (xerces for one chokes on
>xmlns:jabber:config:jsm="http://...")
>
>  Also, I thought you had to declare a namespace before using it - which
>isn't done in jabber.xml?
>
>  I am trying to parse the configuration file using xerces/xpath and
>those namespace issues are causing trouble - if I fix them jabberd won't
>start anymore...
>
>Any suggestion? Thanks!
>
>Franck Mangin 
>FaceTime Communications 
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