Re: How to catch parser errors?

Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:


> I currently use something like this:
> 
> try {
>   someElement.innerHTML = foopydoopy;
> } catch(ex) {
>  dump(ex);
>  >>> [Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified"  code: "
> 12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR)"  location: xxx 
> Line: nnn"] <<<
> }
> 
> but I don't want to lookup the error code in that string, so how can I 
> solve this problem?

ex is likely an object with properties, look at that in the debugger, it 
probably has properties like
  ex.result
  ex.name
  ex.message
  ex.lineNumber
  ex.columnNumber
which give you the components of that string you see with dump(ex).

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