From: Eric Will <rakaur@...>
Date: 2008-10-01T00:42:32+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml exceptions

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Mark Thomas <mark@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I tried libxml. It has nice error messages:
>
> foo.xml:3:
> parser error :
> Opening and ending tag mismatch: title line 3 and txitle
>        <title>Foo</txitle>
>                           ^
>
> but they go to stdout. You can capture them by registering an error
> handler. Sample code:
>
> parser = XML::Parser.new
> parser.filename = "foo.xml"
>
> msgs = []
> XML::Parser.register_error_handler lambda { |msg| msgs << msg }
>
> begin
>  parser.parse
> rescue Exception => e
>  puts "Error: #{msgs}"
> end

Interesting. I was thinking about doing libxml anyway. I do not like REXML.

Thanks.

> -- Mark.

-- rakaur