[SOLVED] Parsing XML with CDATA via VTD

Parsing XML with CDATA via VTD

According to this answer, VTD should be able to parse records with CDATA. However, it seems the parsing does not work with version 2.13 (from maven repo) and with the latest 2.13.2 downloaded from sourceforge.

This is the test I am using:

private String xmlCDATA = "<p><![CDATA[ [Hello [World]] ! ]]></p>" ;";

@Test
public void testCDATA() throws Exception {
    VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
    vg.setDoc(xmlCDATA.getBytes());
    vg.parse(false);
}

and the exception I get:

        com.ximpleware.ParseException: Error in CDATA: Invalid termination sequence
    Line Number: 1 Offset: 27
    at com.ximpleware.VTDGen.process_cdata(VTDGen.java:3092)
    at com.ximpleware.VTDGen.parse(VTDGen.java:2640)

Any help is appreciated!

Solution

It seems that you are missing the trailing > character... which is required for terminating CDATA segement ... iow, it should have been ]]>

Update: I did a check and managed a quick release that contains the fixes to this bug in two places: one in VTDGen.java, the other in VTDGenHuge.java