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Old 09-05-2014
Dealing with XML comments

I'm writing my own simple XML parser as an experiment. It's a lot more complicated than it's supposed to be.

Things supposedly forbidden in XML comments happen all the time in the wild. You're never, ever supposed to find -- inside <!-- xml comments --> but in practice, you don't just find that, you find while(j-->d) inside them. I'm not sure how an XML parser is supposed to be able to handle that without choking -- "Hm, my XML comment seems to be followed by 37233 characters of garbage followed by some invalid syntax, I should go back and assume that's all inside the comment"?
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Old 09-05-2014
I guess they drill down from the top level to the inner levels.
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Old 09-06-2014
An XML parser is an extremely complicated bit of code if it is expected to cover the full XML specification. There are a number of different parsing models - DOM, SAX, StAX and more. For some ideas, have a look at the source code for libxml.
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