[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder revealing SaxParserException - cause unknown

Thu Jan 22 17:57:23 PST 2004

Are your comment start and stop markers all in sequence (alternating 
start/stop)? Comments can't be nested, so two start markers in a row 
would cause this error.

  - Dennis

Willie H Armstrong wrote:

>Greetings all,
>
>      While attempting to build a JDOM Document I am receiving a
>SAXParserException with a detailMessage stating "The string "--" is not
>permitted within comments." I have examined the input stream and can only
>find '--' in the comment tag start and stops, '<!--' and '-->'.  The
>exception reports a line and column location. When the location is examined
>in a programming editor, UltraEdit, the specified point looks the same in
>UTF, Unicode and ASCII encodings.  The area (formatted) on the input stream
>is as follows. The **** marks where the SAXParserException says the parsing
>failed.
>
><script language="JavaScript">
><!-- function adDigit(num) {
>                                          var sinDig = new String();
>
>if (num <= 9) {sinDig = "0" + num};
>                                          else {sinDig = num}
>
>      return sinDig;
>                                    }
>
>      var expdt = new String("2004-01-30T18:00:00");
>                                                var effdt = new
>String("2004-01-22T13:07:04");
>                              var today = new Date();
>                                                                  var dtd =
>new Date****();
>                              var dt = new String();
>                                                                  dtd =
>(today.getMonth()+1);
>                              dtd = adDigit(dtd);
>                                                                  today =
>today.getYear()+"-"+(adDigit(today.getMonth()+1))+"-"+(adDigit(today.getDate()))+"T"+(adDigit(today.getHours()))+":"+(adDigit(today.getMinutes()))+":"+(adDigit(today.getSeconds()));
>
>            if (today <= expdt && today >= effdt) {
>                                                      document.write("<img
>src='/livelinksupport/xsl/newsstand/resources/images/bullet_text.gif'/> <a
>href='?func=ll&objId=2099235&objAction=viewnews'>Needham Weight Loss
>Program</a>")                                               }
>      if (expdt == "") {
>                                                document.write("<img
>src='/livelinksupport/xsl/newsstand/resources/images/bullet_text.gif'/> <a
>href='?func=ll&objId=2099235&objAction=viewnews'>Needham Weight Loss
>Program</a>")                                               }
>
>--></script>
>
>
>I am using the Oracle JDeveloper 10g IDE.  I have replaced the Oracle V2
>parser with the Apache Xerces 2_6_0.  The parsing exception is thrown on
>line 370 of SAXBuilder. I have verified that both the parser and in objects
>are not null and are of the expected class.
>
> 369           // Parse the document.
> 370          parser.parse(in);
> 371
> 372           return contentHandler.getDocument();
>
>The build method is being called in this piece of my code, where isIn is an
>InputStream.
>
>            SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
>            builder.setValidation(false);
>            builder.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(false);
>
>            try {
>                 doc = builder.build(isIn);
>            } catch (JDOMException e) {
>                throw new FailedTransformException(
>                    "Could not build internal JDOM document.");
>            }
>
>The input stream starts with this piece of XML.  The input stream is from a
>HttpsUrlConnection.
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><html xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
>xmlns:mydt="urn:lldtfun">
><head>
>
>
>Your guidance and assistance is requested and appreciated.  If more
>information is needed, please let me know.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Bill
>
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