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Re: Broken SAX parser after app server port

• To: "Hamacher, John E." <HamacherJE@D...>
• Subject: Re: Broken SAX parser after app server port
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:05:20 -0500
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Hamacher, John E. wrote:

> I recently ported a WebSphere 4 application to Tomcat 5.  The
> schema-validated SAX parser (Xerces) in the program broke down.  It is now
> firing characters() when encountering whitespace after each end tag.  I have
> noticed some other unusual behavior such as the enormous size of the ch
> arrays being passed to characters().  The ch arrays are almost always of
> size 2048 and contain my entire XML document from beginning to wherever the
> 2048th character is.   I have tried adjusting the buffer size of the
> XMLReader to no avail.  I have looked for jar conflicts but haven't found
> any yet.  Anybody relate to this?
> 
> 

This is all as it should be. Nothing surprising here. To the extent you 
are being surprised, it is by what the SAX spec requires and allows, 
rather than what Xerces is doing. See

http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch06s07.html

and

http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch06s10.html


-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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