[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#466344: Bug#466344: hal: error in fdi file : not well-formed (invalid token)

[Olivier Berger]

Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Olivier Berger wrote:
>> Package: hal
>> Version: 0.5.10-5
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I get errors like :
>> Feb 18 07:52:05 rms hald[22242]: error in fdi file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/user.fdi:5: not well-formed (invalid token)
>>
>> Whenever /etc/hal/fdi/policy/user.fdi contains :
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
>> <!--
>> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>>     <device>
>>         < !-- optical drives - ->
>            ^                    ^
> Xml comment syntax is <!-- -->,

Yes.

> so you're fdi file is indeed buggy.

Wrong.

See above : first opening of comments on line 2, then rest is just 
garbage inside a comment, which the XML parser should ignore.


seeing "< !--" inside comments is nothing to care for, right ? Only 
"-->" should matter.

Hence, my XML is right, IMHO.

Please reopen.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,