fixed the long-standing bug with start tags in :DTD behaviour

README.html

@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@
       <li>Minor changes: clone-node on document as an extension.  DOM
       class hierarchy reworked.  New function parse-empty-document.
       Fixed the DOM serializer to not throw away local names.
-      ANSI conformance fixes.</li>
+      Fixed a long-standing bug in the parser for documents without a
+      doctype. ANSI conformance fixes.</li>
     </ul>
     <p class="nomargin"><tt>rel-2006-01-05</tt></p>
     <ul class="nomargin">

xml/xml-parse.lisp

@@ -1278,6 +1278,11 @@
 			      (mu target)))
                    (t
                     (values :PI (cons target content))))))
+          ((eq *data-behaviour* :DTD)
+	    (unread-rune d input)
+	    (unless (or (rune= #// d) (name-start-rune-p d))
+	      (wf-error zinput "Expected '!' or '?' after '<' in DTD."))
+	    (values :seen-< nil))
           ((rune= #// d)
            (let ((c (peek-rune input)))
              (cond ((name-start-rune-p c)
@@ -2605,6 +2610,11 @@
         (setf (model-stack *ctx*) (list (make-root-model root))))
       ;; element
       (let ((*data-behaviour* :DOC))
+	(when (eq (peek-token input) :seen-<)
+	  (multiple-value-bind (c s)
+	      (read-token-after-|<| input (car (zstream-input-stack input)))
+	    (setf (zstream-token-category input) c
+		  (zstream-token-semantic input) s)))
         (p/element input))
       ;; optional Misc*
       (p/misc*-2 input)