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Broken XML in some responses
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I don't see an issue with the first 2 (maybe they've been fixed already), but the third is an invalid UTF-8 character in one of the reviews --xmllint --noout "http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is..."
http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is... parser error : CData section not finished
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is... parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 25
I've had to work around this problem too for descriptions -- it would be nice if only UTF-8 characters came from the XML feeds.
Casper.
Casper wrote: "I don't see an issue with the first 2 (maybe they've been fixed already), but the third is an invalid UTF-8 character in one of the reviews --xmllint --noout "http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?i..."
What are you using for parsing the response? On Android that is.
I'm just using the standard SAX parser, with the XML forced into UTF-8 format:InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
InputSource source = new InputSource(reader);
parser.parse(source, handler);
Casper.
Casper wrote: "I'm just using the standard SAX parser, with the XML forced into UTF-8 format:InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
InputSource source = new InputSource(reader);
parser.p..."
Aha, I never forced UTF-8. Will try that when I get home.
For example http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is... gives this error:
"org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatParser$ParseException: At line 270, column 210: not well-formed (invalid token)"
Opening the feed in Chrome gets chrome to spit out this:
"error on line 275 at column 20: Encoding error"
This corresponds to this line:
<body><![CDATA[Medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli are back.
><br/>
The extra > before the <br/> seems to be what's causing it. Any chance you can fix this?
Here are some more books that contains the extra >
http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/isbn?is...