From: Vincent Carmona <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-08-13T00:45:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31693] [Bug #3686] Error in parsing musicbrainz.org with rexml

Bug #3686: Error in parsing musicbrainz.org with rexml
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3686

Author: Vincent Carmona
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i486-linux]

rexml (ruby 1.9.1) fails to parse this url http://musicbrainz.org/show/puid/?puid=c6a6717f-6d88-4d0e-4c57-d6b949118072 .

require 'net/http'
require 'rexml/document'

url='http://musicbrainz.org/show/puid/?puid=c6a6717f-6d88-4d0e-4c57-d6b949118072'
res=Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
doc=REXML::Document.new(res.body)

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:95:in `rescue in parse': #<RuntimeError: Undeclared entity '&raquo;' in raw string "Skip to main content &raquo;"> (REXML::ParseException)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/text.rb:165:in `block in check'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/text.rb:153:in `scan'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/text.rb:153:in `check'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/text.rb:125:in `parent='
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parent.rb:19:in `add'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:45:in `parse'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/document.rb:228:in `build'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rexml/document.rb:43:in `initialize'

$ ruby1.9.1 --version
ruby 1.9.1p378 (2010-01-10 revision 26273) [i486-linux]

ruby 1.8.7 can parse these data.


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