Re: dia barfing on valid xml input

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Am 01.05.2008 10:21, Aaron Trevena schrieb:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm wondering if anybody can help track down the source of this
> problem when importing a generated xml into dia 0.96.1 :
>
> <class exceptions.SyntaxError at 0xb68e077c><exceptions.SyntaxError
> instance at 0xb64c3b4c>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxrev.py", line 482, in import_file
>    classes = GetClasses ([sFile])
>  File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxrev.py", line 400, in GetClasses
>    classes.extend (Parse (f.read()))
>  File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxrev.py", line 391, in Parse
>    p.Parse(sData)
>  File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxrev.py", line 344, in start_element
>    o = eval (s + "()")
>
> The XML is from autodia, which usually works fine, but in this case
> there is something upsetting dia that I haven't been able to spot.
Are you trying to use the importer for Doxygens XML format for the read Dia 
diagram files? Than it may be that you are hit by
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503117

> xmlint reckons the XML is fine, so it's a bizarro dia behaviour thing.
>
> Any help appreciated, particularly ways in which to get a more useful
> error message from the dia parser, because that's not helpful at all
> to me.
There are a lot of parsers in Dia, the one which produces the strange 
output above (a Python callstack) is not capable and not meant to import 
Dia's native format.

        Hans

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