GNU bug report logs - #7172
emacs 23.2; xml.el: xml-parse-file hangs when DOCTYPE element names contain _ (underscore)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jose Marino <marinoj <at> astro.ufl.edu>

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Jose Marino <marinoj <at> astro.ufl.edu>
Cc: 7172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7172: emacs 23.2; xml.el: xml-parse-file hangs when DOCTYPE element names contain _ (underscore)
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:59:32 +0800

Jose Marino <marinoj <at> astro.ufl.edu> writes:

> In a DOCTYPE construction, whenever there's an ELEMENT name with an
> underscore in its name, function xml-parse-file makes emacs become
> unresponsive and use 100% cpu. Emacs recovers nicely with C-g but no
> error is printed.
>
> $ cat example-bad.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE EXAMPLE [
>    <!ELEMENT EXAM_PLE EMPTY>
> ]>
> <EXAM_PLE>
> </EXAM_PLE>

This is fixed in trunk.  Thanks for the bug report.
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