Document.createElement() doesn't accept ":",":xxx" and "xxx:" as element names

Name: eaR10174 Date: 03/06/2001



  The implementation of method org.w3c.dom.Document.createElement(String tagName) doesn't accept
":", ":xxx" and "xxx:" as valid element names. It throws DOMException with INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR
error code (See test.java below).
  
  The XML 1.0 specification defines the element name format (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Name):
  
           Name ::= (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)*
           
  Hence ":", ":xxx" and "xxx:" names are valid.
  
  This bug appears in builds jaxp-1.1.1-b23-25_feb_2001, jaxp-1.1.1-b23-28_feb_200 and affects the
test in TCK JAXP 1.1
  
       api/com/sun/xml/tests/dom/DocumentTest.html#createElement001
       api/org_w3c_dom/Document/CreateElementTests.html#createElementTest01
       
------------------------------------test.java-----------------------------
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;

public class test {
    
    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        String[] names = new String[] {":", ":xxx", "xxx:"};
        
        for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
            try {
                Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                                         .newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
            
                doc.createElement(names[i]);
                System.out.println("name '" + names[i] + "' - OKEY");
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("name '" + names[i] + "' - " + e);
            }
        }
    }
}
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% java -showversion -cp .:jaxp1.1.1/jaxp.jar:jaxp1.1.1/crimson.jar test
java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0-C)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0-C, interpreted mode)

name ':' - org.apache.crimson.tree.DomEx: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid character was
specified, such as in a name.
name ':xxx' - org.apache.crimson.tree.DomEx: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid character was
specified, such as in a name.
name 'xxx:' - org.apache.crimson.tree.DomEx: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid character was
specified, such as in a name.
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