XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Steve Loughran" <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 28/06/06, John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org> wrote:
> Bart Schuller scripsit:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some nasty HTML to parse so I immediately tried out Tagsoup,
> > which produced a workable XML file. But when I tried building a XOM tree
> > in one step using the example from the nux page, I got an exception:
> >
> >   Exception in thread "main" nu.xom.ParsingException: Comment data
> >   contains a double hyphen (--).
>
> It's definitely a bug in TagSoup that my regression tests didn't catch,
> because they don't test the treatment of comments (there is a command-line
> way to output comments, though, the --lexical switch).
>
> I'll try to issue a new release soon.

Arguably: its a design-defect in XML that propagates down the food chain
http://issues.us.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17262