From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2008-10-01T03:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml exceptions

On Sep 30, 2:09 pm, Eric Will <rak...@malkier.net> wrote:
> My situation requires SAX, unfortunately.
>
> I need to parse and react to each tag as in comes in. If there's a
> broken one, all tags up to the broken one must be processed, and the
> broken one must be stored. I cannot do this in DOM, because if there's
> an error, DOM will not process anything.

If you can receive an entire document at a time, libxml has a
'recover' mode that will correct what it can and process the entire
document -- even if it is not well-formed. It works surprisingly well.

Another option is writing your own recursive descent parser. See
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2190 for a starting point.

-- Mark.