Re: SAX Parse error while parsing CDATA element

[Michael Glavassevich]

The sequence "]]>" [1] cannot appear in character data. You should escape the ">" with >.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-CharData

Radhakrishnan J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/22/2004 11:49:01 AM:

> Hi,
>
> We are using XmlBeans and in some places need to generate documents that are
> DTD conformant. Sometimes, another XML document needs to be embedded within
> these documents. I tried to use a SAX Parser ( Xerces v 2.2.0 ) to process a
> test XML string generated by XmlBeans. The following is the XML ( as seen in
> java code ),
>
>   "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" +
>   "<some-content some-attribute=\"some-attribute-value\">" +
>   "<!CDATA[some-content-value is: Tom &Jerry is my favorite cartoon show
> !]]>" +
>   "</some-content>";
>
> XmlBeans generates the following character stream for this ( set as content
> for the *GenericString* element ).
>
> <xb:GenericString xmlns:xb="http://tavant/test/xmlbeans">
> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> &lt;some-content
> some-attribute="some-attribute-value">&lt;!CDATA[some-content-value is: Tom
> &amp;Jerry ]]>
> &lt;/some-content>
> </xb:GenericString>
>
> I wrote a simple SAX handler that just prints what it sees ( I'm new to this
> parsing business ). The following is the output :
>
> class org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
> class org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl
> setDocumentLocator(org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser$LocatorProxy@
> 14c1103)
> startDocument()
> startElement(,,xb:GenericString,org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser$
> [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> characters(char[],int,int): <
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xm
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><some-content some-attribute="some-attribute-value">
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><some-content some-attribute="some-attribute-value"><
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><some-content
> some-attribute="some-attribute-value"><!CDATA[some-content-value is: Tom
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><some-content
> some-attribute="some-attribute-value"><!CDATA[some-content-value is: Tom &
> characters(char[],int,int): <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><some-content
> some-attribute="some-attribute-value"><!CDATA[some-content-value is: Tom
> &Jerry is my favorite cartoo show !
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The character sequence "]]>" must not appear
> in content unless used to mark the end of a CDATA section.
>    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>    at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
>    at
> tavant.xmlbeans.test.TestMarkupCharactersAsContent.testGenerateXml(TestMarku
> pCharactersAsContent.java:70)
>    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>    at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
> )
>    at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
> .java:25)
>    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
>    at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
>    at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
>    at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
>    at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
>    at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
>    at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
>    at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
>    at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
>    at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:116)
>    at junit.textui.TestRunner.start(TestRunner.java:172)
>    at
> com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.TextTestRunner.main(TextTestRunner.java:12)
>
> I don't understand the problem here ?? I tried to search the archives but
> the response time was too high. Apologies if this is an oft-repeated query.
>
> Thanks,
> Radhakrishnan J
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Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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