From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-09-14T04:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Bypassing XML inconsistencies with REXML::StreamListener

nutsmuggler wrote:
> Hello folks.
> I am trying to build a simple XML parser to extract data from IBM
> translation manager memories. Here is a sample os such memory files:
...
> 
> I need to bypass mistakes, and tell StreamListener: "when you
> encounter a faulty segment, don't bother!"
> How do I achieve this?

Don't use an XML parser to handle non-XML?

Alternatively, have you tried the REXML pull parser?  A bit more work in 
that you have to explicitly pop items off the tag stack, but it may have 
better options for recovering from bad markup.

However, the underlying parser may still barf in trying to segment the 
source into tags and such.

Also, I don't know if Hpricot is happy with non-HTML, but it's worth a 
shot to  see if it can read and "fix" the source before you pass it to 
another parser.  You'll want to check that any modification made to the 
input do not change the essential semantics.

(Or perhaps you could just use Hpricot and extract data with XPath)

-- 
James Britt

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