Thanks, Michael, for the quick reply. Your result narrows our search for causes. We'll try to isolate the cause further and will report back here if we have some insight to share.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Glavassevich [mailto:mrgla...@ca.ibm.com] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:34 PM > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > Subject: Re: trouble parsing a particular XML file > > Hi Ken, > > Seems fine to me. I cannot reproduce the error(s) you're > seeing. Running it through the sax.Counter sample it > completes normally: > > java sax.Counter file:///D:/xmldocs/objbank_b.xml > file:///D:/xmldocs/objbank_b.xml: 375 ms (18340 elems, 10035 > attrs, 0 spaces, 735650 chars) > > so I imagine there's something else going on here, for > example some InputStream which is corrupting the document > before the parser sees it or you're using some old version of > Xerces that had a bug or the JDK fork (for which I keep > hearing about issues that Apache Xerces has never had). > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > "Hamilton, Kenneth" <khamil...@fdr.follett.com> wrote on > 11/09/2009 03:05:45 PM: > > > Hello. > > > > (My first post to this list. Please excuse any breech in > manners on > > my > > part.) > > > > I have been trying to parse an XML file which is part of the IMS > > Common Cartridge conformance suite. The file encodes QTI > elements and > > runs about 129,000 lines of text. In my environment, which is > > Java/JBoss/Xerces, the Xerces parser fails with the message: > > > > [Fatal Error] :129176:1: Content is not allowed in trailing section. > > > > Nevertheless, Firefox and IE are able to parse it well enough to > > display the tree structure. Thinking it might be size-related, I > > edited the file down by half, making sure the resulting file was > > well-formed, and re-tried. (The file was pretty flat, > about 1500 QTI > > items, so it was easy to do.) That gave me: > > > > [Fatal Error] :59603:3: The markup in the document > following the root > > element must be well-formed. > > > > (Again Firefox and IE have no trouble.) > > > > Halving again (resulting in the file I attach here) I get: > > > > [Fatal Error] :29761:1: Content is not allowed in trailing section. > > > > (Again, no problem for FF or IE.) > > > > The next halving solves the problem. Each half separately passes > > through the parser. > > > > I have not been able to figure out what my problem is. I > doubled my > > JVM memory allocation, but this had no apparent effect. > > > > Can anyone see what is going wrong here? > > > > thanks! > > > > Ken Hamilton > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
