[XML-SIG] Structural view of XML files?

[Dinu C. Gherman]

Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@garshol.priv.no> wrote:
> 
> * Dinu C. Gherman
> |
> | I'm using a little tool that I found *somewhere* and attached to
> | this message in a slightly modified version. It is supposed to
> | display an indented tree view of XML files. And this is what it
> | does, but only as long as there are no entities in the files, like
> | '&uuml;'. Sigh...
> 
> Have you declared your entities? If not that is probably the reason.

Of course not! ;-)

> | Does anybody know of a version that handles this XML 'feature'
> | as well?
> 
> Entities are no business of the SAX application; they are resolved
> before the application ever sees them. You use xmlproc, which supports
> them, but you should note that you are using the non-validating
> version, which will not read the external DTD.

Well, I thought that would be enough to display a tree
view, which is all I wanted. I thought there is no need
for declaring or knowing about entities for such a simple
tool, as they do not affect the parsing of the elements
(or maybe IMHO they shouldn't).  

> If you want the validating version, try using:
> 
> SAXparser = saxexts.XMLValParserFactory.make_parser()
> 
> instead.

Thanks for the hint. I might try that later. For the time
being I'm using some kind of a workaround, which is to
remove everything that looks like an entitiy in a pre-
processing step. This is sufficient for my current need.

Maybe it was silly to expect that entities would be handled
by default...

Regards,

Dinu

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