Why the oracle XML parser "parses" the DTD comments?

Question

Hi all,
I always use the header
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>
to be able to use foreign characters in the XML documents.
The oracle xml parser handles this correctly.
My problem is, when I write comments inside the DTD, the
parser reports "Invalid UTF8 encoding".
Why the parser "parse" the comments? (protected by <!-- and -->)
How do I say that the DTD encoding is different from UTF, like
ISO-8859-1?
Example of a correct DTD and corresponding XML, reporting
problems, related to the 2nd comment in the DTD specification,
written with ISO-8859-1 characters.
The DTD:
<!-- valid.dtd -->
<!ELEMENT valid ( B, C ) >
<!-- valid represents the concept "Identificagco" -->
<!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT C (#PCDATA) >
The XML:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>
<!DOCTYPE valid SYSTEM 'valid.dtd'>
<valid>
<B>How are you, Conceigco</B>
<C>I'm fine, thank you.</C>
</valid>
The parser output:
[jgr@frontera test-dtd]$ java oracle.xml.parser.v2.oraxml -v
valid.xml
Error while parsing input sourcevalid.xml(Invalid UTF8 encoding.)
Thank you for any help.
Jorge Gustavo Rocha

Answer 1

I was wrong in saying that the attributes are not added to the element.My main aim is to add a array of elements to the root node.
Is there a efficient manner in adding the elements , rather than adding them individually with the help of appendChild method.
Thanks in advance.
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