Re: SAX succeeds, but StAX fails
On Mar 6, 8:57 am, Kai Schlamp <stroncococ...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hy!
I tried to parse PubMed (a biomedical article database) with SAX and
also StAX. The last one failed, but I am not sure why (see Exception
below).
Why does SAX succeed and StAX don't?
The XML document seems to be fine (seehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/e=
utils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=11...)
Any suggestions?
...
String address = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/en=
trez/
eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=11748933&retmode=xml";
URL url = new URL(address);
...
Error message:
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[50,39]
Message: A '(' character or an element type is required in the
declaration of element type "PubMedPubDate".
The XML document itself is fine, but non-validating due to problems in
the DTD; StAX by default attempts to validate input documents. SAX is
ignoring the DTD associated with the XML document, and therefore
doesn't notice that the DTD is invalid.
-o
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