Thrown DOMException has INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR instead of NAMESPACE_ERR

Name: eaR10174 Date: 08/27/2003


  The method DOMImplementation.createDocument() throws DOMException with the error code
INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR in case when the parameter qualifiedName is null and the parameter
namespaceURI is not null (see test.java below). According to the method javadoc:
  
  Throws:
    DOMException - INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains
    an illegal character according to [XML 1.0].
    NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed, if the qualifiedName has a
    prefix and the namespaceURI is null, or if the qualifiedName is null and the
    namespaceURI is different from null, or if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is
    "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from " http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
    [XML Namespaces] , or if the DOM implementation does not support the "XML" feature but
    a non-null namespace URI was provided, since namespaces were defined by XML.

the method should throw DOMException with the error code NAMESPACE_ERR.

  The bug appears in jdk1.5.0beta-b16 and affects a new JCK1.5 test:

     api/org_w3c/dom/DOMImplementation/index.html#CreateDocument[CreateDocument011]

------------------------------------test.java-----------------------------
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;

public class test {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        new test().run();
    }
    
    public void run() {
        Document document = null;
        try {
            document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
                       .newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Can't create an empty document.");
            return;
        }
    
        DOMImplementation implementation = document.getImplementation();

        try {
            document = implementation.createDocument("http://xxx.xxx", null, null);
        
            System.out.println("Method does not throw an exception.");
        } catch (DOMException e) {
            if (e.code == DOMException.NAMESPACE_ERR) {
                System.out.println("OK");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Unexpected error code of exception: " + e );
            }
        }
    }
}
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% java -showversion test
java version "1.5.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-beta-b16)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-beta-b16, mixed mode)

Unexpected error code of exception: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An
invalid or illegal XML character is specified.
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