Re: YAML problem, possibly?

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Sean E. Russell wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 06:35, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
>> I used D last night on one machine, but it blows up on this one in
>> REXML, for reasons I don't know, but I get the same YAML problem as
>> before with I.aiml.  In case anyone was wondering about my typing
>> skills [or worse] :-).
>
> What is the REXML error message?

I remembered over lunch that I did fixup some bugs in the XML in
some files on the other machine, and D was probably one.


E:\Downloads\AnnaAIML-.7.0\anna_brain>xml_to_yaml.rb
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:85:in `parse': REXML::ParseExce
ption   from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:176:in `build'
         from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:45:in `initialize'
         from E:/Downloads/AnnaAIML-.7.0/anna_brain/xml_to_yaml.rb:6:in `new'
         from E:/Downloads/AnnaAIML-.7.0/anna_brain/xml_to_yaml.rb:6
         from E:/Downloads/AnnaAIML-.7.0/anna_brain/xml_to_yaml.rb:5:in `open'
         from E:/Downloads/AnnaAIML-.7.0/anna_brain/xml_to_yaml.rb:5

E:\Downloads\AnnaAIML-.7.0\anna_brain>

The problem with this message is not that it is a ParseError, it is that
it doesn't tell you where in the stream (line, token, ?) it has died.
I should be the first to admit, however, that my ability to write parsers,
and ones that give useful diags, leaves A LOT to be desired; so this
really is intended to be constructive criticism!  When REXML works it
is a pleasure to use.

         Thank you,
         Hugh
>