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Re: NSXMLParser Error 27 and Crash
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Re: NSXMLParser Error 27 and Crash


  • Subject: Re: NSXMLParser Error 27 and Crash
  • From: Ian was here <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:43:19 -0800 (PST)

When parsing XML, it may be helpful to put your
strings in CDATA blocks.

<![CDATA[your string that you don't want parsed]]>

You're trying to parse HTML, so this might not be a
solution.


--- John Stiles <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'd guess that your file encoding isn't UTF8, so the
> © character is
> throwing the parser out of whack.
>
> On Dec 2, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Eric Russell Balch
> wrote:
>
> > Ok, I'm going to assume that since nobody ever
> responded to this
> > that nobody had anything helpful to say ;-)  Maybe
> this added new
> > info will help someone help me --
> >
> > I started looking at this again today and realized
> that what I
> > reported was only the first of 3 errors that are
> generated by the
> > parser and only after the 3rd error and subsequent
> return from
> > parseErrorOccurred: does the app actually crash --
> the error dialog
> > had been masking the error.  I switch to NSLog()
> to avoid this.
> >
> > - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
> parseErrorOccurred:(NSError *)
> > parseError
> > {
> >     NSLog(@"Error %i, Description: %@, Line: %i,
> Column: %i",
> > [parseError code], [[parser parserError]
> localizedDescription],
> > [parser lineNumber], [parser columnNumber]);
> > }
> >
> > So I guess the parser keeps going even on error --
> Here's what I
> > see logged now:
> >
> > 12/2/07 2:06:07 PM LC[6561] Error 27, Description:
> (null), Line:
> > 116, Column: 56
> > 12/2/07 2:06:07 PM LC[6561] Error 27, Description:
> (null), Line:
> > 116, Column: 66
> > 12/2/07 2:06:07 PM LC[6561] Error 9, Description:
> (null), Line:
> > 124, Column: 103
> >
> > Error 9 seems to be:
> >
> > NSXMLParserInvalidCharacterError - Invalid
> character encountered.
> >
> > Line 124 doesn't have 103 columns -- odd.  Not
> even sure if the R/C
> > numbers line up where I think.  Is newline
> included?
> >
> > Line 124 to the end of the HTML I'm testing on
> looks like this:
> >
> >       <p>© 2004-2005 HaX-Revolution, Ltd.</p>
> >     </div>
> >   </div>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > I haven't made any other important observations or
> changes since.
> > Maybe someone else can help who's using
> NSXMLParser?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Jul 1, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Eric Balch wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, I'm stumped!
> >>
> >> I'm using NSXMLParser for the first time and
> things have been
> >> progressing nicely until I ran into the
> following:
> >>
> >> The parser returns an error code of 27 which has
> no description --
> >> the documented errors jump from 26 to 28 -- then
> the app crashes.
> >>
> >> I'm using the parser to parse some HTML in this
> case and the line
> >> it's barfing on is...
> >>
> >>            <li><a
> href="index.html">Home</a>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;</li>
> >>
> >> ...right at the beginning of the second "&nbsp".
> It really
> >> doesn't what I do to this line of HTML though,
> the parser always
> >> reports the same error at the same position.
> Very odd.
> >>
> >> I'm assuming this has something to do with the
> crash.  I just have
> >> no clue as to what is going wrong.
> >>
> >>
> >> To start things off I do this:
> >>
> >> - (void)parseURL:(id)url
> >> {
> >>    BOOL success;
> >>    NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString: url];
> >>
> >>    if (myParser)
> >>        [myParser release];
> >>
> >>    myParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc]
> initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL];
> >>    [myParser setDelegate:self];
> >>    [myParser
> setShouldResolveExternalEntities:NO];
> >>
> >>    success = [myParser parse]; // return value
> not used
> >>
>      // if not
> >> successful, delegate is informed of error
> >> }
> >>
> >>
> >> And my parser implements:
> >>
> >> - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
> didStartElement:(NSString *)
> >> elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI
> qualifiedName:
> >> (NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary
> *)attributeDict
> >>
> >> - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
> foundCharacters:(NSString *)
> >> string
> >>
> >> - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
> didEndElement:(NSString *)
> >> elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI
> qualifiedName:
> >> (NSString *)qName
> >>
> >> - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
> parseErrorOccurred:(NSError *)
> >> parseError
> >>
> >>
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