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  2. JDK-6346734

Error on XML literals should be thrown on parsing

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      E4X (ECMAScript for XML) is not supported in Mustang. But, error on XML literals should be detected early and reported.

      import javax.script.*;

      public class t {
              public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
                      ScriptEngineManager m = new ScriptEngineManager();
                      ScriptEngine e = m.getEngineByName("js");
                      // E4X (XML support for JavaScript) is not supported.
                      // but we expect a better error message (like 'syntax error')
                      e.eval("var v = <html></html>");
              }
      }

      The above program throws an exception with the message:

      Exception in thread "main" javax.script.ScriptException: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "XML" is not defined. (<Unknown source>#1) in <Unknown source> at line number 1


      i.e., the error is detected after parsing (while searching for XML constructor). It would be better to report the error while parsing.

            sundar Sundararajan Athijegannathan
            sundar Sundararajan Athijegannathan
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