Hi,

In <83173408.0405060527.109872e6 / posting.google.com>
  "Re: REXML bug?" on Thu, 6 May 2004 22:29:09 +0900,
  ser / germane-software.com (Sean Russell) wrote:
> Yes, this was a bug in Doctype; it should be fixed in the current
> release of REXML, as well as in CVS; in fact, it has been fixed for a
> couple of months -- I believe ti got fixed in version 3.0.2, so I'm

It seems to be not fixed. REXML::Docutype#initialize doesn't
call `super' when `first' is REXML::Source.

I attach a patch for the bug, but I don't like this
solution. :(  I hope SER supply more flexible solution.

--
kou

Index: lib/rexml/doctype.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/lib/rexml/doctype.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -b -r1.5 doctype.rb
--- lib/rexml/doctype.rb	28 Mar 2004 22:36:15 -0000	1.5
+++ lib/rexml/doctype.rb	7 May 2004 13:23:53 -0000
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ module REXML
 				@external_id = first[1]
 				@long_name = first[2]
 				@uri = first[3]
+			elsif first.kind_of? Source
+				super()
+				parser = Parsers::BaseParser.new( first )
+				event = parser.pull
+				if event[0] == :start_doctype
+					@name, @external_id, @long_name, @uri, = event[1..-1]
+				end
+			else
+				super()
 			end
 		end