Re: [xml] parsing problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

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.

  Okay I finally reproduced it after guessing where the problem was
(basically the stream code was looking for the --> sequence from the
start of the comment and not from the start of the content of the comment)
Fix is in CVS, I also added the test file to the regression suite.

> I'm
> wondering if it's exposing some buffering problem in the parser.

  Actually no, it's 'just' a streaming parser bug.

Daniel

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