Julien Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/27/2007 08:37:09 AM: > Thanks for the information. > This indeed gives me the line/col position where Xerces throws the > exception, > which turns out to often be inside the element qname and not at an > element start or end. So: > > a) i need to highlight the offending elements and thus need to know > where they start and end. is there a way inside my startElement and > endElement handlers to get the position info too? (i don't have an > exception there that carries the info)
If there's a well-formedness error within the start-tag the parser will stop processing the document before it reaches the end of the start-tag. If you turn on the continue-after-fatal-error [1] feature you might be able to get the location information you're looking for from the Locator [2], though it might be misleading given that the document isn't well-formed. > b) is there a way to get an error type id (ideally something numeric) or > do i have to regexp-match each SAXParseException's message against every > known error string to know what type of sax parsing error it is (e.g. > missing end-tag, invalid character, etc.)? Not something you can get through SAX. I vaguely remember that there was an attempt to define such things in a SAX 2.1 but it never ended up happening. Internally, every error message Xerces emits has a unique identifier (a tuple of a domain and a key) associated with it. This error ID is accessible through XNI. You may want to take a look at XMLErrorHandler [1]. > Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > The SAXParseExceptions [1] reported to your ErrorHandler and thrown by the > > XMLReader contain location information. See getColumnNumber() and > > getLineNumber(). > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#continue-after-fatal-error [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/api/org/xml/sax/Locator.html [3] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/javadocs/xni/org/apache/xerces/xni/parser/XMLErrorHandler.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
