Re: [xml] Proceed on error.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:19:50AM +0100, Morten W. J. wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I use libxml (2.6.7) to check if a string of XML is well formed by running it 
> through xmlParseMemory.
>
> Sometimes, eg. when encountering "<nacho" or "<d></d><e>", libxml prints an 
> error similar to 
> "Entity: line 1: error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag nacho"
> or
> "Entity: line 1: error: Extra content at the end of the document" and halts 
> execution.
>
> I just want to catch if the returned doc is NULL or not, free it and return a 
> proper value from my function. 
>
> Any idea on how I get xmlParseMemory to proceed instead of halting or any 
> alternative ideas?

  those are Well formedness errors. The processor will stop delivering data
from that point, it's mandatory behaviour.
  - so it can't "proceed", it has to "halt"
  - if you mean you don't want to see the errors, 
    http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlerror.html
    set up your own error handler.

Daniel

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