Re: [xml] parsing problem

[Graham Bennett <graham-libxml simulcra org>]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:37:59AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:20:56PM +0000, Graham Bennett wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having a problem parsing the attached document with libxml 2.6.22.
> > My application uses the SAX2 interface in push mode, but for some reason 
> > I'm only able to reproduce it using xmllint --stream:
> >
> > $ xmllint --stream badcomment.xml
> > badcomment.xml:17: parser error : Comment not terminated
> > <!-->Char</nt>* ']]&gt;' <nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>*)
> > '&comc;&gt;'</rhs>--
> >                     ^
> > badcomment.xml : failed to parse
> >
> > The test case is somewhat fragile (but I'm fairly sure it's well-formed) 
> > - if I try to cut it down to a smaller doc it doesn't happen.  I'm
> > wondering if it's exposing some buffering problem in the parser.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
>   Hum, strange. It is actually well formed since
>     <!--> 
> is not ended as a comment. But running xmllint from CVS head on it
> seems to work well, in normal, push or stream mode. Maybe you're heading
> a specific bug present in libxml2 push mode, I remember fixing something
> about the detection of end of fragments in push mode for 2.6.23, could
> you try with the latest version ?

Just to follow up, I've reproduced this with 2.6.23 and CVS head.  I've
sent Daniel some debugging info offline.

cheers,

Graham

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Graham Bennett