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I fully agree with you that Microsoft is right in treating the invalid character situation as fatal, although it has made my job difficult. I hope that in the future, people who prepare xml files will take care to adhere to the XML spcifications. Anoop. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...> To: Jeff Greif <jgreif@a...>; Anoop A V <anoop_scorpio@h...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:47 AM Subject: RE: To continue parsing after a fatal error. Actually, the invalid character error is per the XML 1.0 spec fatal. If Microsoft were to deviate from the W3C spec and make this ignorable, we would deserve the roasting we would get at the merciless hands of xml-dev list members. The reasoning behind the rule is that it prevents the spread of malformed XML, and thereby preserves interoperability. This is a good and necessary reason, although it is not much consolation when you are stuck trying to clean up bad XML. We should have some tools to make this easier.. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Greif [mailto:jgreif@a...] > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:35 PM > To: Anoop A V; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: To continue parsing after a fatal error. > > Normally you might attempt to deal with this kind of problem using a > custom > SAX error handler. In MSXML3, however, you may not be able to this, > because > the underlying parsing code makes all errors fatal (calls the error > handler's fatalError ()method always, rather than ever calling its error() > or ignorableWarning() methods). It appears that treating all errors as > fatal > limits recovery options. > Details (not very many) are here: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en- > us/xmlsdk30/htm/isaxerrorhandler_interf > ace.asp?frame=true > > I only looked this up out of curiosity. I have not tried it myself and am > not pretending to be authoritative. > > Jeff > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anoop A V" <anoop_scorpio@h...> > To: <xml-dev@l...> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 10:51 AM > Subject: To continue parsing after a fatal error. > > > > Hi, > > I have an 800 MB file which I need to parse. When I do this using MSXML > SAX > > parser, I get a fatal error with the message "Invalid character found in > > text content". And the parsing will be stopped. But I need to continue > > parsing the file even if an invalid character is met. I don't mind if > that > > particular node(s) is skipped. But I need to parse the whole file. This > file > > is not under my control, so there is no question of my being able to > edit > > this file and remove the invalid characters. Can anybody help? > > > > Thanks. > > Anoop. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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