Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/13/2010 11:24 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> not sure to be on the right ML to report this behavior, please help me
>> to find the right place to do it if not... and sorry for the noise.
>> 
>> I use gcj on a LTS Ubuntu:
>> gcj (Ubuntu 4.4.1-5ubuntu2) 4.4.1
>> 
>> My sample code may be downloaded here as Test.java:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=7115
>> 
>> and looks like that:
>> ================================
>> import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
>> import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
>> import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
>> 
>> public class Test {
>> 
>>    public static void main(String argv[]) {
>> 
>> 	try {
>> 
>> 	    SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
>> 	    SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
>> 
>> 	    DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {};
>> 	    saxParser.parse("test.xml", handler);
>> 
>> 	} catch (Exception e) {
>> 	    e.printStackTrace();
>> 	}
>>    }
>> }
>> ================================
>> 
>> I compile it like following:
>> gcj -o test --main=Test Test.java
>> 
>> My XML file "test.xml" may be downloaded here:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=7114
>> 
>> By running the the binary I get the following error:
>> $ ./test
>> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: not a name start character: "U+26"
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at Test.main(test)
>> Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: not a name start
>> character: "U+26"
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.error(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readNmtoken(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readNmtoken(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.readCharData(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.XMLParser.next(libgcj.so.10)
>>   at gnu.xml.stream.SAXParser.parse(libgcj.so.10)
>>   ...3 more
>> 
>> Although the XML should be valid.
>> 
>> Has someone an idea to explain this behavior?
>> 
>> This "bug" impacts the Mediawiki mwdumper SW. T
>> The related bug (with more details) is available here:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22137
> 
> Mmmm, looks like it probably is a real bug.  If you remind me next
> week I'll have a look.

I reproduced and fixed this bug, see the attached patch. If someone could validate and commit it for me please do so, I don't have a complete working build environment at the moment.
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Chris Burdess