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  • From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 AT cam.ac.uk>
  • To: XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Problem with Xerces/XOMHandler.inInternalSubset reading from File but not FileReader or FileInputStream
  • Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:14:39 +0100

Thanks for your efforts, Elliotte,
I agree there is no way of reproducing the bug. For me Xerces seems like a
virus where every copying operation introduced small mutations so every
version is subtly different. But we have to rely on it.

P.


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold
<elharo AT ibiblio.org>wrote:

> After a great deal of effort, I have not been able to reproduce this
> bug at all. I've made a few adjustments that may cure the problem, but
> I have no way of knowing for sure. I did find one way in which a
> misbehaving parser could sneak bad data into XOM and plugged that gap.
> However as to this specific bug I just don't see any way it could
> possibly have arisen if the reporters were in fact using any version
> of Xerces. :-(
>
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> Elliotte Rusty Harold
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