luaexpat, handling entities

["Elbers, H.P." <H.P.Elbers@...>]

Hello,

 

I'm using luaexpat (from the Kepler project) to parse xml files that contain entities like &nbsp;

These cause the parser to abort with the error 'undefined entity'...

 

Is the a way to tell luaexpat to handle these errors 'gently', or do I have to preprocess the input to catch them?

 

Thanks,

    Hans.

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Example:

 

#!/usr/bin/env lua

require("lxp")

 

function doStart(parser, name, attr)  print('start of', name) end

data = ''

local xml = lxp.new{ StartElement = doStart}

 

a,b = xml:parse(data)
if not a then
  local l,c = xml:pos()
  print(string.format("ERROR: [%d,%d] %s", l, c, b))
else
  xml:close()
end

 

Output:

start of        aa
start of        bb
start of        cc
ERROR: [1,34] undefined entity