Re: [xml] Catch parsing error

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:57:23AM +0300, Tiberius Duluman wrote:
[...]
> the error from context->lastError is
> "Premature end of data in tag presence line 1"
> but the one displayed on the screen is:
>
> Entity: line 6: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: tuple line 2 and presence
> </presence>
>            ^
> Entity: line 8: parser error : Premature end of data in tag presence line 1
>
> Why doesn't the parser stop after first error is found?

  Because people find more generally useful to get all errors than just
  one at a time.

> How can I obtain the first error generated by the parser because it is more suggestive to
> report to a user?

  Set your own error handler, either generic or structured
see http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-xmlerror.html for all entry points

Daniel

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