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Re: SAX - not well formed data

• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• To: Johannes Lichtenberger <Johannes.Lichtenberger@u...>
• Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:34:56 -0500

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:01:58 +0100, Johannes Lichtenberger wrote:
> I have a document like this:
> 
> so it's not well formed. I only want to be able to write out the first
> pages, but the SAX Parser throws errors:

Which it is required to do.

> I've instanciated an XMLReader and set
> parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false); but
> it seems, it doesn't really help...

No, it wouldn't.  Validation != well-formedness.  You cannot read an 
ill-formed XML document with an XML parser.  Use something else (is 
this a job for the once-famous DPH?).

Amy!
-- 
Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.
                -- Indigo Girls

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    • From: Johannes Lichtenberger <Johannes.Lichtenberger@u...>