Javascript request on non well-formed xml file in Safari

Hi,
I make an AJAX request to get a non well-formed xml file. On Internet Explorer (domNode is empty) and Firefox (domNode is not empty but a tag "parsererror" is present), I can know if the document is non well-formed but on Safari the request seems to be ok, I get a part of the non well-formed file (until the error).
I would like to say if I can make the difference between a well-formed xml file and a non well-formed xml file (with an AJAX request) on Safari.
Thanks
Julien

I have built a desktop application that can use these
calls to check if the xml contained in the document
called "file" is well formed.
Ok. So, the application works fine then?
DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder domBuilder =
lder domBuilder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
domBuilder.parse(file);
They are part of the javax.xml.parsers.*; package.
Problem is that to serve this I need to put it in an
applet but since I have to write the xml string to a
file local to the server the applet is not working.
Huh? You lost me there. Are you getting security exceptions from the applet? If yes, you need to sign the applet. Otherwise, what is not 'working' in the applet compared to the application? Also, why do you need to first write it to a file?
My question is if anyone knows of some classes in the
API that will allow me to check if a String of XML is
well formed or not.
If the document is not well-formed, the parse() call will throw an exception. Catch this and process as needed.
I basically need to get a string from a field in a
data base in XML format and be able to test it
without first writing it to a document so I can get
the applet to work.
If you want to access an external database from an applet, you will need to sign the applet. You should not need to first write it to a file before parsing. Rather, simply use a stream (either InputStream or Reader) and wrap it in a StreamSource object.
If anyone knows something on this or has an
alternative suggestion please do tell.
Thanks.- Saish

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XSLT and non-well formed XML file

All,
I am getting some "XML" feeds from some old lab equipment, however the XML isn't well formed. Really it isn't even XML it is just a formatted text file. So I will get a feed like the following:
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<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
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<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
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</SampleSet>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="2015002323 2" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:14 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="35.8 ppm" />
</SampleSet>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="2015002324 3" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:27 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="32.4 ppm" />
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<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="CQS6" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:33 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="123 ppm" />
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Hello katghoti,
>>however the XML isn't well formed. Really it isn't even XML it is just a formatted text file
Firstly, we should know that a text file actually does not know a XML format, so I suggest that you could save the text file to a XML file. And if you provided XML is the whole content, it is not an invalid XML file because the XML document must have one
and only one root element. You have to add root element, so a valid XML file with these SampleSet elements should be similar with below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SampleSets>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="CQS6" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:20 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="116 ppm" />
</SampleSet>
<SampleSet Label="Sample Set">
<Name Label="Name" Value="CQS6" />
<AnalysisDate Label="Analysis Date" Value="3/13/2015 12:33 PM" />
<CarbonAvg Label="Carbon Avg." Value="123 ppm" />
</SampleSet>
</SampleSets>
I am not sure how you want the XML be formatted, my usual approach to format a XML file is to open the file in Visual Studio and use ctrl K+D keyboard shortcuts to format the XML file.
>>is there a way that I can wrap the file using XSLT instead of having to create a separate program to make it well formed?
XSLT is used to process XML file, while you provided file is a text file, it does not recognize it.
If I misunderstand, please feel free to let me know.
Regards.
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Checking Well-Formed XML files with ABAP Mapping

Hi guys,
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thx PHIL
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Hi,
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xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://localhost:8888/home/XDB/xsd/readme_neu.xsd">
 <title lang="de-DE">Preisliste Antriebselektronik </title>
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 <edition lang="de-DE">date</edition>
 <doctype lang="de-DE">Preisliste</doctype>
 <projectstartdate lang="de-DE">date</projectstartdate>
 <projectenddate lang="de-DE">date</projectenddate>
<projectenddate lang="en-DE">date</projectenddate>
 <status lang="de-DE">Druckvorstufe</status>
 <doku-key>PA300000</doku-key>
 <orderno lang="de-DE">
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 <previous>11341408</previous>
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 <orderno lang="lv-LV">
 <actual>11500476</actual>
 <previous>11341653</previous>
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 <previous>11341688</previous>
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The Tags title and projectenddate makes the problem. I'd like to make an Objekt TITEL_OBJECT and PROJECTEND_OBJECT to differ the tags, but my problem is:
xdb_titel_type is NOT FINAL
Name Null? Typ
SYS_XDBPD$ XDB$RAW_LIST_T
SPRACHE VARCHAR2(4000 CHAR)
that I lose the content the tags.
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thx PHIL
I have solved the problem
Message was edited by:
user534856

Appended log files are not well formed XML?

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Hello,
I am getting a complete headache from this! I uninstalled Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and installed in on another hard drive. Since then nothing works! It seems to be an error with IIS...
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When I ceate an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application
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similar to first screenshot, can only upload 2 images...
I already tried the following:
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Reinstalling IIS Express 8
Thanks!

Hi,
In order to resolve your problem. You should give us some information:
First, is there any error occur when you install the VS or do you can successfully install the VS? You can use
http://aka.ms/vscollect to gather the latest installation logs. After using it, you will find vslogs.cab from %temp% folder. Please upload the file to
https://Onedrive.live.com/ and share the link here.
Second, the error may related to .NET FrameWork. You can use the tool in the link to check the .NET Framework Setup:
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I have been trying to download tax info from the I.R.S site. When I try to open the downloads I get this error message:
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I am trying to invoke the activity webservice using Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0 through PowerBuilder...
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ls_post_url = "https://secure-ausomxxxx.crmondemand.com/Services/Integration/Activity;"
ls_response_text = "jsessionid=" + sesId + ";"
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If I uncomment the setRequestHeader info, then I get a different error:
ls_post_url = "https://secure-ausomxxxx.crmondemand.com/Services/Integration/Activity;"
ls_response_text = "jsessionid=" + sesId + ";"
ls_post_url = ls_post_url + ls_response_text
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loo_xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", 200 )
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loo_xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("COOKIE", left(cookie,pos(cookie,";",1)-1) )
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I am unsure what I am missing in order to invoke the web service. If anyone can help I would truly appreciate it.
Thanks

Hi,
I tried the SOAP request you provided and got a different error response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><soap:Fault><faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode><faultstring>Client</faultstring><detail><ErrorCode>SBL-ODU-01008</ErrorCode><ErrorMessage>The HTTP request did not contain well-formed XML. An attempt to parse it produced the following error: Unsupported wsse:Password Type. Valid Value: http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText</ErrorMessage></detail></soap:Fault></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
After changing the Password Type from:
Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wssusername-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">hijklmno</wsse:Password>
to:
Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">hijklmno</wsse:Password>
The request was successful.
Please let me know if this resolves your issue.
Thanks,
Sean
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Header>
<wsse:Security
xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"
soapenv:mustUnderstand="1">
<wsse:UsernameToken>
<wsse:Username>abcdefg</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password
Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">hijklmno</wsse:Password>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<q0:ContactWS_ContactQueryPage_Input
xmlns:q0="urn:crmondemand/ws/contact/">
<q1:ListOfContact xmlns:q1="urn:crmondemand/xml/Contact/Query">
<Contact>
<ContactType>='Customer'</ContactType>
<ContactFirstName>='Fred'</ContactFirstName>
<IntegrationId />
</Contact>
</q1:ListOfContact>
</q0:ContactWS_ContactQueryPage_Input>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
Edited by: Sean Duffy on Jun 4, 2010 9:38 AM

Assembler Service API Quick Starts Web service API, Response is not well-formed XML

Hi,
I am trying to get the "Assembler Service API Quick Start" webservice api example to work in a asp.net application.
The following line produces the exception below.
// Send the request to the Assembler Service
AssemblerResult result = asOb.invoke( ddxDoc, inputMap, assemblerSpec );
"Response is not well-formed XML. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at AssemblerServiceService.AssemblerServiceService.invoke(BLOB inDDXDoc, mapItem[] inputs, AssemblerOptionSpec environment)"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
cheeves
(the code is exactly as it is in the example, except for adding "?blob=base64" to the url of the AssemblerServiceService obeject, and I have the 3 files in the root of my c drive)

after looking at the example more closely I discovered that there is a key name called "optionsLink.pdf" that doesn't match the source in the DDX file.

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OK this is driving me nuts. I am getting a NullPointerException error in the XmlReader.parse() method. This happens on well formed xml documents of any kind and none of my XML will parse.I dont know what I am doing wrong in the code:
DefaultHandler handler=new MyCalendarHandler(); //my default handler class defined elsewhere
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import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
Thank you for any help
ronjon

cal.xml is in the current working directory. In fact I had also tried with the full path but get the same error.
I am wondering if this is a java version problem.
ronjon

Not well formed XML data in XI

HELLO !!
Can XI handle a non welll formed XMl messages as an input ?
THANKS
~Peeru

Hey
>>we can use java mapping to make it well formed XMl.
What exactly you mean by "not well formed XML" ?
>>Does it mean that java mapping can take the value as a stream of data and then at the next step the XML parser is va;idating the msg ?
Yeah thats the way Java mapping works,it takes input in the form of Input stream and gives output as an output stream.
Bottom line is XML structure should be valid,you can't handle a invalid XML structure with any mapping,once you get the message then you can use graphical message mapping for simple structures or use Java for complex ones(i guess by non-well formed you mean the ones which can be handled only by Java mapping)
Thanx
Aamir

This seems to be well formed XML. Why?

Hello,
I can't find an answer to the question why this xml seems to be "well formed". (According to: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/tools/ruwf/check.html.)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<example>
<myelement category="<MyCategory>">MyContent</myelement>
</example>Watch out for the > in the "category" attribute value.
As far as I know this is not valid XML. But the validator I used says its OK. I used JDOM to parse this data and it works without any error. Why?
Thanks for your time.
Peer

I can't find an answer to the question why this xml seems to be "well formed". Because it obeys all the syntactic conventions of well formed xml?That's obviously the only correct answer to my question. :-)
But you have to admit that it's a little bit strange to escape the left angle bracket and not the other one. I cannot see the benefit of it. But probably there is none....
Thanks again, Pete!
Peer

Not well-formed XML

Hi guys,
I need to parse an XML file which is not well formed.
For example, the value of an element named 'topic' contains html tags which are not ended properly etc..
e.g. <topic>Some text </topic>
Why do I need this? Because some idiots on their web site publish XML data (not well formed) which indeed is very valuable to me, and I want to use it. I tried contacting them on the "not-well-formed-XML" issue but haven't managed to get a reply yet. Hence I have been struggling with this using the SAX API and so on...
I think there should be a way to ignore some elements' content when parsing the XML data but I haven't been able to do it...I am not experienced on SAX or DOM API's...
For example if the problem is caused only by the BR tags then when I encounter it, either startTag or endTag, I should be able to ignore it. When I say "ignore", I mean "not change the state of the parser", or undo the last state change or whatever...Well at least I think I would write an XML parser like this if I were to do that...
Any help is appreciated...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
There is no such thing as an "XML file which is not
well formed." There are files that look like they
might be XML files but are not valid. I think that is
what you have. One of the key differences between XML
and HTML is that HTML has allowed sloppy habits to
become routine. XML prohibits them from getting past
the hurdle of validation.
Dave PattersonI'm not sure about the comments that you have made about the validity and well-formedness about XML documents. As I said I'm not experienced in XML but as far as I understand, a document is called "valid" when it conforms to all the constraints imposed by a DTD. However, there is no DTD in my case and the XML document I have is not "well-formed" as defined below:
A well-formed XML document is syntactically correct. It does not have any angle brackets that are not part of tags. (The entity references < and > are used to embed angle brackets in an XML document.) In addition, all tags have an ending tag or are themselves self-ending (<slide>..</slide> or <slide/>). In addition, in a well-formed document, all tags are fully nested. They never overlap, so this arrangement would produce an error: <slide><image>..</slide></image>. Knowing that a document is well formed makes it possible to process it. A well-formed document may not be valid however. To determine that, you need a validating parser and a DTD.
According to the above definition the XML document I have violates the constraints and not well formed. But you can argue that the XML document I got is not an XML document but it is just some document :) Then anyway, I am not sure about all this terminology...
The technique you suggested seems reasonable but as far as I know the SAX parser stops parsing when a fatal error is encountered. So I don't know how I will trap/ignore the error and continue...
As for the JTidy suggestion:
I have tried using HttpUnit which uses JTidy and couldn't get it right. I think when a DOM is created using JTidy the document must also be well formed (XHTML or whatever)...Am I wrong here?
Thanks a lot...

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