Corrections to Chapter 6 of The XML Bible, Well Formed XML Documents

p. 135: In the third sentence of the Comments section, some double hyphens got replaced by an em dash. The sentence should read "All data between the  is ignored by the XML processor."

p. 138: In the example at the top of the page, &quote; should be ". That is,

<PARAM NAME="joke" VALUE="The diner said,
  &quot;Waiter, There&apos;s a fly in my soup!&quot;">
</PARAM>

p. 142: In the last paragraph of the section on Attribute values "If the attribute value contains both single and double quotes, then the one that's not used to delimit the string must be replaced with the proper entity references." should read "If the attribute value contains both single and double quotes, then the one that's used to delimit the value must be replaced with the proper entity references." (That is remove the not.)

p. 144: The heading at the top of the page should use more initial capitals; that is, it should read:

#1: The XML Declaration Must Begin The Document

p. 144: The extra spaces that were supposed to make the second XML declaration incorrect are missing. What you should see is this:

For instance, this line is not an acceptable way to start an XML file because of the extra spaces at the front of the line:

              <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>

p. 145: In the text for rule #4, the sentence "This sometimes called the document element instead" should of course be "This is sometimes called the document element instead".

p. 147: In Figure 6-1, all the element names should be in capital letters to match Listing 6-1. Here's the corrected figure: