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Re: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)

• From: Philippe Poulard <philippe.poulard@s...>
• To: "Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB)" <Matthew.C.Johnson@l...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:16:36 +0100

Hi,

Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB) a écrit :
> Using today’s parsers I can’t parse the following as a single 
> stream/file/etc.
> 
>  
> 
> <person>
> 
>   <name>Matt Johnson</name>
> 
> </person>
> 
> <person>
> 
>   <name>Michael Kay</name>
> 
> </person>

Several years ago I was using a third-party tool that was feeding my 
application with (sometimes) mutli-rooted documents (finally, it's 
almost the same issue than Michael Kay with its log files)

I introduced an option for addressing it in RefleX : you can ask for the 
"lax" or "strict" mode (the latter is naturally the default).

With mode="lax", XML fragments and well-formed XML documents will be 
parsed sucessfully ; this include fragments that doesn't contain a root 
element at all : you can also have only text or even text around root 
elements. Would it be also a new feature in XML 2.0 ?

It works for DOM and SAX.

In this example :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr/tips.html#parsingFragments
several documents are parsed and each fragment are merged in a new 
well-formed XML document.
Note : the target well-formed document can be a SAX document even if you 
parsed the fragments à la DOM : the engine will "cast" them automatically.

-- 
Cordialement,

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• References:
  • RE: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>
  • Re: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@a...>
  • RE: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: "Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB)" <Matthew.C.Johnson@l...>
  • RE: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • RE: Nested Documents (was: XML 2.0)
    • From: "Johnson, Matthew C. (LNG-ALB)" <Matthew.C.Johnson@l...>