Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com> wrote on 03/05/2009 12:16:54 PM:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.
> com> wrote:
> > As far as I know, that will always fail... it fails at the lowest
> > level in the parser, before you get chance to handle it.
>
> I have so far also concluded the same.
>
> >
> > In the end I resorted to string processing the feed before parsing
> > it.....
>
> Incidentally, this solution also occurred to my mind :)
>
>
> (although I guess you can argue that non-well-formed input
> > means a non-xml solution)
>
> I would not prefer pre-processing the string by adding DOCTYPE before
> passing the string to the XML parser.
>
> I think the ideal solution to this problem is, the original author of
> the XML must add a DOCTYPE declaration, if any entity references are
> there.
Or just insert one yourself programmatically. SAX's EntityResolver2 allows you to do this.
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
>
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Michael Glavassevich
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