[SAXParser] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: not a name start character: "U+26"

Sat Feb 13 11:36:00 GMT 2010

On 02/13/2010 11:24 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> not sure to be on the right ML to report this behavior, please help me
> to find the right place to do it if not... and sorry for the noise.
>> I use gcj on a LTS Ubuntu:
> gcj (Ubuntu 4.4.1-5ubuntu2) 4.4.1
>> My sample code may be downloaded here as Test.java:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=7115
>> and looks like that:
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> import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
> import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
> import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
>> public class Test {
>> public static void main(String argv[]) {
>> 	try {
>> 	 SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
> 	 SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
>> 	 DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {};
> 	 saxParser.parse("test.xml", handler);
>> 	} catch (Exception e) {
> 	 e.printStackTrace();
> 	}
> }
> }
> ================================
>> I compile it like following:
> gcj -o test --main=Test Test.java
>> My XML file "test.xml" may be downloaded here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=7114
>> By running the the binary I get the following error:
> $ ./test
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: not a name start character: "U+26"
> at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
> at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
> at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
> at Test.main(test)
> Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: not a name start
> character: "U+26"
> at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.error(libgcj.so.10)
> at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readNmtoken(libgcj.so.10)
> at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readNmtoken(libgcj.so.10)
> at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readCharData(libgcj.so.10)
> at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.next(libgcj.so.10)
> at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
> ...3 more
>> Although the XML should be valid.
>> Has someone an idea to explain this behavior?
>> This "bug" impacts the Mediawiki mwdumper SW. T
> The related bug (with more details) is available here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22137

Mmmm, looks like it probably is a real bug. If you remind me next
week I'll have a look.
Andrew.