DTD Validation Error: Attribute Value "9999" of type ID must be aname.

[Marcio DeBarros]

Hi,

I am using JDOM to create and validate XML document in a Java app. for the first time, and am getting the error above when I am validating a document with SAXBuilder with the following DTD:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!-- DTD for a user definition file -->
<!ELEMENT user (username, password, email?)>
<!ATTLIST user id ID #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT username (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT password (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>

And here is the output file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE user SYSTEM "../lib/dtd/user.dtd">
<user id="9999">
<username>SomeUser</username>
<password>mypassword</password>
<email></email>
</user>

The document was created using JDOM, and the during the creation of the attribute :
Attribute idXML = new Attribute ("id", getId, Attribute.ID_ATTRIBUTE); userXML.setAttribute(idXML);

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here ???

Thanks,

--MD.

 

[Dean Tiegs]

<!ATTLIST user id ID #REQUIRED>

<user id="9999">

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong here ???

An attribute of type ID must start with a letter or an underscore. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#id>.

 

[Marcio DeBarros]

Thanks that did it.

An attribute of type ID must start with a letter or an underscore. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#id>.