Re: [xml] xmlParseFile;encode - newbie question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:59:51PM +0200, Pieter Louw wrote:
> #The cleanest way I can think of to handle this
> #is to have a "forgiving" mode for libxml2 that treats bad entity references
> #as plain text.
>
> Is there currently a feature available to put the parser in "forgiving" 
> mode?

  Yes but you MUST fix the problem on input. Especially for this kind
of stupid, obvious brokeness. I'm horribly serious about this, and
there is no garantee I will keep that mode available except for a couple
of API calls purely dedicated to recovery in the future.
  You are warned, I already stated the input must be fixed, and you
must not rely on libxml2 to work around XML well-formedness errors,
if I see this being abused I will just drop the support, I hope this
is cristal clear.

Daniel

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