[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder revealing SaxParserException - cause unknown

Thu Jan 22 16:53:29 PST 2004

Greetings all,

      While attempting to build a JDOM Document I am receiving a
SAXParserException with a detailMessage stating "The string "--" is not
permitted within comments." I have examined the input stream and can only
find '--' in the comment tag start and stops, '<!--' and '-->'.  The
exception reports a line and column location. When the location is examined
in a programming editor, UltraEdit, the specified point looks the same in
UTF, Unicode and ASCII encodings.  The area (formatted) on the input stream
is as follows. The **** marks where the SAXParserException says the parsing
failed.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- function adDigit(num) {
                                          var sinDig = new String();

if (num <= 9) {sinDig = "0" + num};
                                          else {sinDig = num}

      return sinDig;
                                    }

      var expdt = new String("2004-01-30T18:00:00");
                                                var effdt = new
String("2004-01-22T13:07:04");
                              var today = new Date();
                                                                  var dtd =
new Date****();
                              var dt = new String();
                                                                  dtd =
(today.getMonth()+1);
                              dtd = adDigit(dtd);
                                                                  today =
today.getYear()+"-"+(adDigit(today.getMonth()+1))+"-"+(adDigit(today.getDate()))+"T"+(adDigit(today.getHours()))+":"+(adDigit(today.getMinutes()))+":"+(adDigit(today.getSeconds()));

            if (today <= expdt && today >= effdt) {
                                                      document.write("<img
src='/livelinksupport/xsl/newsstand/resources/images/bullet_text.gif'/> <a
href='?func=ll&objId=2099235&objAction=viewnews'>Needham Weight Loss
Program</a>")                                               }
      if (expdt == "") {
                                                document.write("<img
src='/livelinksupport/xsl/newsstand/resources/images/bullet_text.gif'/> <a
href='?func=ll&objId=2099235&objAction=viewnews'>Needham Weight Loss
Program</a>")                                               }

--></script>

I am using the Oracle JDeveloper 10g IDE.  I have replaced the Oracle V2
parser with the Apache Xerces 2_6_0.  The parsing exception is thrown on
line 370 of SAXBuilder. I have verified that both the parser and in objects
are not null and are of the expected class.

 369           // Parse the document.
 370          parser.parse(in);
 371
 372           return contentHandler.getDocument();

The build method is being called in this piece of my code, where isIn is an
InputStream.

            SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
            builder.setValidation(false);
            builder.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(false);

            try {
                 doc = builder.build(isIn);
            } catch (JDOMException e) {
                throw new FailedTransformException(
                    "Could not build internal JDOM document.");
            }

The input stream starts with this piece of XML.  The input stream is from a
HttpsUrlConnection.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:mydt="urn:lldtfun">
<head>

Your guidance and assistance is requested and appreciated.  If more
information is needed, please let me know.

Thank you,

Bill