Reading malformed XML

[Steve Jones]

Hi,

I need to parse some XML documents on a "best efforts" basis.

I'm not interested in validating the xml. I just need to handle syntax
errors, missing brackets, missing quotes etc, gracefully.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Steve.

 

[Simon Shearn]

Hi,

I need to parse some XML documents on a "best efforts" basis.

I'm not interested in validating the xml. I just need to handle syntax
errors, missing brackets, missing quotes etc, gracefully.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Steve.

Hello -

You could try the javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback class.
This is a SAX-style
parser for HTML that can cope with most kinds of malformedness. I haven't
tried giving it malformed
XML to process, but I would expect it to work.

Regards,

Simon