Re: [xml-dev] SAX - not well formed data

[Manos Batsis <manos_lists@geekologue.com>]

Michael Kay wrote:
>> I have a document like this:
>>
>> <xml>
>>   <page>
>>     <rev>...</rev>
>>     <rev>...</rev>
>>   </page>
>>   ... (some hundreds of pages)
>>   <page>
>>     <rev>...
>>
>> so it's not well formed. 
> 
> It's not clear from that description why it isn't well-formed.


The root element has an illegal name. Haven't worked with SAX for some 
time and do not remember the API, but one should be able to easily use a 
custom XMLReader (perhaps a wrapper of the original) or whatever to fix 
this before feeding it to the parser. Or something like that.

I would even dare to say some exception handling could very well do it.

Cheers,

Manos