Re: SAX succeeds, but StAX fails

From:
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:27:21 -0700 (PDT)
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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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