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

[Andrew Haley]

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:
> ================================
> 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.