Article:		An XML Fragment Reader
Subject:		Misleading Premise
Date:		2003-07-17 20:33:16
From:		William Brogden
Response to: Misleading Premise
It is true that SequenceInputStream comes close. However if you use it, your SAX error reporting is by line number within the entire sequence - which I found pretty hard to interpret. By keeping track of line numbers within the separate chunks of text, it is easier to find the source of a parse error.

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• Misleading Premise
  2003-07-17 22:05:15 Alex Milowski [Reply]
  
  That's a good point.

  
  My main point was that it isn't that XML is broken in some way as it can't deal with "incomplete documents". You've just found a convenient way to parse (and maybe validate) a group of individual streams of XML content within one parsing context without too much overhead.