Re: expat and leading white spaces

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Sinha, Raj (Raj) wrote:

>
> I was looking around to see if there might be a way to allow
> expat/libwww to accept xml files with leading white spaces before the
> standard <?xml version="1.0" ?> line without invoking the
> XML_ERROR_MISPLACED_XML_PI.
>
> I know that it is invalid to do so but this is one of those quirky
> requests to make the parser less forgiving for this case.

I've found the same thing, and work around it by simply seeking to the
first '<' before parsing the buffer or file, which ever is appropriate.

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