Re: Parsing and missparsing XML

• To: Benno Blumenthal <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Parsing and missparsing XML
• From: Ethan Davis <edavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:27:16 -0600

Hi Benno,

Benno Blumenthal wrote:
> 
> In looking through my logs, I noticed that fastsearch.net has managed
> (somehow) to find  my thredds directory, but seems to be misparsing it.
> 
> 
> The top of the directory is at
> 
> http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/thredds.xml
> 
> and that file has lines in it like
> 
> <catalogRef xlink:title="DASILVA"
> xlink:href="http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.DASILVA/thredds.xml"/>
> 
> The robot is hitting  urls like
> 
> http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.DASILVA/thredds.xml"/
> 
> 
> which I am presuming to mean that it does not understand the   '/>' notation
> to end the tag.
> 
> 
> Are we using a non-standard xml notation?   I was just following the example I
> was given.

No, that is standard XML. Perhaps the crawler is confused by the differences
between XML and HTML. But even so, I would think it would stop for the '"'.
Maybe the crawler would do better if there were a space before the "/>" but
either way is valid XML.

Ethan


> Benno
> 
> 
> 
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