Re: Intermittent problem parsing an XML document with Expat

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 1.  We now have several jobs receiving XML data from our vendors.  However,
> every now and then, there is a parsing error from Expat.

What's the error?


> 2.  My program reads an XML document in the IFS, to parse it to a work 
> file.  But sometimes, it splits the XML data into two occurrences of the 
> tag, and writes two records to the work file.  I can never find anything 
> wrong with the input document.

Linda...  there's no law that says that all character data must be 
received in one call to the character data handler.  I think the problem 
is that you're expecting to receive everything at once.  So as soon as 
your character data handler is called, you go ahead and list the output.

Instead, you should store the XML data until you receive an ending 
element.  Only when the end handler is called for your element should you 
attempt to use the character data.

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