XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <wolfgang.hoschek AT mac.com>]

HTML is not wellformed XML, so you need to preprocess it with  
something like TagSoup.
Tagsoup makes HTML appear as if it were XML. See http:// 
mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/

Wolfgang.

On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Nick Day wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been having a bit of trouble parsing a HTML file (attached)  
> into a document and keep getting the error below.  Do I need to  
> preprocess the file into a different encoding before attempting the  
> creation of the Document object or am I way off?
>
> thanks,
> Nick
>
> nu.xom.ParsingException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.  
> in file:/f:/test.txt
>     at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1157)
>     at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:614)
>     at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:990)
>     at  
> uk.ac.cam.ch.wwmm.scuflworkers.java.StripElementsFromXMLTest.main 
> (StripElementsFromXMLTest.java:23)
> Caused by: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte  
> UTF-8 sequence.
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.invalidByte(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.scanLiteral(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at  
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanAttribute 
> (Unknown Source)
>     at  
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement 
> (Unknown Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl 
> $FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
>     at  
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument 
> (Unknown Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
>     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown  
> Source)
>     at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1127)
>     ... 3 more
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>     at  
> uk.ac.cam.ch.wwmm.scuflworkers.java.StripElementsFromXml.strip 
> (StripElementsFromXml.java:22)
>     at  
> uk.ac.cam.ch.wwmm.scuflworkers.java.StripElementsFromXMLTest.main 
> (StripElementsFromXMLTest.java:34)
>
>
> <test.txt>
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