[Expat-discuss] Processing of incorrect characters

[Michael B. Allen]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:41:20 +0300
Ivan Murashko <Ivan.Murashko at Arcadia.spb.ru> wrote:

> I process a big xml file (more than 1 Gb) by means of expat. This file
> contains erroneous character, for an example character with code 0x03.
> 
> Parser returns XML_ERROR_INVALID_TOKEN error.
> 
> Can I say to expat to ignore these characters?

I don't think so. Perhaps you can search for the invalid characters
in the buffers passed to XML_ParseBuffer and convert them in-place to
something benign.

Mike

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