Re: glib and XML

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:51:23PM -0400, André Pedralho wrote:
> I'm building an app that uses the GLib simple XML subset parser
> (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Simple-XML-Subset-Parser.html),
> but I'm getting a problem at this!
> My XML has some recursions e.g.
>
> 1 <DL>
> 2    <DT>some text
> 3    <A HREF=some url>some name</A>
> 4    <DT>some text
> 5    <DL>
> 6       <A HREF=another url>another name</A>
> 7       <DT>some text
> 8     </DL>
> 9     <DT>some text
> 10   <A HREF=some url>some name</A>
> 11 </DL>
>
> How can you see, there is a <DL> (line 5) tag inside a <DL> (line 1) tag!
> But I get a parse error when the </DL> (line 8) is found!

This is not a well-formed XML (read: this is not XML).  In
XML, all tags have to be closed (or empty, which is
a special case of closed).  So the structure actually is

<DL>
   <DT>some text
     <A HREF=some url>some name</A>
     <DT>some text
       <DL>
         <A HREF=another url>another name</A>
         <DT>some text
         </DL>
         ^^^^^ Wrong, trying to close <DL>, but
               <DT> is the currently open tag.

Yeti


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