Mal-formatted XML

[Nader Mirzadeh]

Hi,

I run into a case which is when an input XML is mal-formatted. More precisely, the value of one of attributes in the XML document contains double quote. I've also handle the exception, and proceed to read next record. When there's mal-formatted data like <my-element my-attribute="this is mal-"fomratted" data"/> BeanIO throws

MalformedRecordException, but the cursor doesn't move to the next record. The very next read would throw the same exception. In short, reading the mal-formatted XML document would never finishes. This case is happening in our production environment.

Regards,

  Nader Mirzadeh

[Kevin]

BeanIO is not an XML parser, and therefore requires well-formed XML for processing.  I recommend in the reference guide that XML documents are validated for syntax and ideally against an XML schema before processing by BeanIO.  Its up to you of course, but I don't think partially processing an invalid document is a good idea.

Thanks,

Kevin

[Nader Mirzadeh]

Thanks Kevin for clarification.

Regards,

  Nader