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Property WstxInputProperties.P_VALIDATE_TEXT_CHARS unrecognized

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Trying to use the lib (v5.0.3) because it was intend to have a feature to ignore invalid characters in xml text, but in fact it is not there: The code: XMLInputFactory2 f = (XMLInputFactory2)XMLInputFactory2.newInstance(); f.setProperty(WstxInputProperties.P_VALIDATE_TEXT_CHARS, Boolean.FALSE); Produces the following error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unrecognized property ‘com.ctc.wstx.validateTextChars’ at com.ctc.wstx.api.CommonConfig.reportUnknownProperty(CommonConfig.java:168) at com.ctc.wstx.api.CommonConfig.setProperty(CommonConfig.java:159) at com.ctc.wstx.api.ReaderConfig.setProperty(ReaderConfig.java:35) at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.setProperty(BasicStreamReader.java:1306)

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Created 6 years ago
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cowtowncodercommented, Oct 3, 2017

Hmmh. That is certainly unexpected… and does not appear to be tested or used. I will need to investigate what is the background story here.

Thank you for reporting this.

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ltuchcommented, Nov 24, 2018

I created a workaround at https://github.com/ltuch/staxtest which demonstrates a method that I use to ignore the invalid XML characters - this uses a FilterInputStream to strip out the bad characters.

Edit: after a bit of thinking I think this workaround has limitations in that it won’t work with UTF-16 and possibly other encodings.

Edit 2: I updated the workaround to use a filtered InputStreamReader. Don’t think this is the most elegant solution, so would be interested in finding a better solution than my hacks 😃.