[Expat-discuss] expat "junk after element" parsing bug?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Lawrence W. Leung writes:
 > I'm using a port of expat to pocketpc included in PocketSOAP 1.4 and
 > whenever I pass something like:
 > 
 > "<ContextTuple></ContextTuple><ContextTuple></ContextTuple>"
 > 
 > to XML_Parse() it fails, complaining of "junk after element" at the
 > beginning of the second ContextTuple start tag.

It should.

 >                                                  I'm not sure exactly what
 > version of expat this is.  Has there been a bug like this?  (If so, is
 > there any easy fix?) Or am I doing something wrong?

You application code is not suspect at this point.  You're using an
invalid document; XML only allows one top-level element.  Only
comments, processing instructions, and whitespace are allowed after
the document element.


  -Fred

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