Re: [xml-dev] Problems parsing a weird entity

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 12/20/06, James Carr <james.r.carr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Recently we've been tasked to process several thousand xml files that
> we can't modify, and in the process of parsing them with sax it seems
> it has an invalid entity &#1; . It seems we keep getting an exception
> from this in all files.
>
> Is there anyway to get around this without modifying the files? We are
> using java 1.4.2's stanadard SAX api to parse the files.

You might be able to get around it by somehow parsing it as XML 1.1
without modifying the prolog, but you'll most likely have to just
preprocess the file to replace/remove the character reference.

If the prolog states its version 1.0 and the file contains #1 then its
not really XML, so maybe try and correct it at source...