setAttribute fails to throw DOMException

Name: dkR10031 Date: 05/14/2001


Specification of the method
javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataNode.setAttribute says:

"Throws:
         DOMException - INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the
         specified name contains an illegal character."

And XML specification defines the legal characters:

[2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | /* any Unicode character, excluding
             [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and
                                                      FFFF. */


However, the implementation (JDK 1.4.0beta, build b64) of the method
does not throw DOMException when given name contains illegal character
\uFFFE.

This bug affects new JCK test:
api/javax_imageio/metadata/IIOMetadataNode/index.html#setAttribute

To reproduce the bug run the following test:

------------ test07.java ------------------------
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadataNode;

class test07 {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {

        IIOMetadataNode parent = new IIOMetadataNode("parent");

        try {
            parent.setAttribute("attr\uFFFE", "2001");
        } catch(org.w3c.dom.DOMException e) {
            if (e.code != org.w3c.dom.DOMException.INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR) {
                System.out.println("Failed: invalid exception code: " + e.code);
            } else {
                System.out.println("Passed");
            }
            return;
        }
        System.out.println("Failed: failed to throw DOMException");
    }
}
------------ Logs -----------------------------
$ java -version
java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b64)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b64, mixed mode)

$ javac test07.java

$ java test07
Failed: failed to throw DOMException

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