DITA-OT Error for trailing space in weblinks

[mr.uma...@gmail.com]

Hi,

DITA-OT (3.5.4) is throwing an error when a trailing space is found in href attribute of xref/link element.

[filter] file:/C:/dita-workarea/o2-workarea/topics/concept/concept-1.dita:39:35: [DOTJ054E][ERROR] Unable to parse invalid href attribute value "https://kb.bluestream.com/kb/#/en-US/XdX_XDocs51_30721_1 ", using 'https://kb.bluestream.com/kb/#/en-US/XdX_XDocs51_30721_1'.

The DITA Topic has following xref:

<xref href="https://kb.bluestream.com/kb/#/en-US/XdX_XDocs51_30721_1 " format="html" scope="external"/>

I am not sure if this is a valid error. Leading/trailing spaces do not have any impact in the link functionality. It could be a warning.

Can this be fixed?

Best Regards,

Uma Shankar

[Radu Coravu]

Hi Uma,

Maybe you can try the same thing with the latest DITA OT 3.6.1 to see if the same behavior persists.

I'm not sure if this is a bug in the publishing engine or not.

Looking at the DITA 1.3 specification for the "href" attribute:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/langRef/attributes/thehrefattribute.html

     Note that certain characters - including but not limited to the hash sign ("#"), question mark ("?"), back slash ("\"), and space - are not permitted unescaped within URIs.

Now I understand that you expect the spaces at the beginning and end of the href to be ignored but it seems the specification does not explicitly say this.

Regards,

Radu

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