tcl XML parsing error

Question

I am trying to parse the XML file using dom package, but here is the error which I got:

unterminatedattribute {invalid attribute list around line 4}

Here is the simple test:

 package require dom;
 set XML "
    <Top>
    <Name name='name' />
    <Group number=1>
    <Member name='name1' test='test1' l=100/>
    </Group>
    </Top>"
set doc [::dom::parse $XML]

set root [$doc cget -documentElement]

set node [$root cget -firstChild]
puts "[$node cget -nodeValue]"

Donal Fellows Donal Fellows · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-16T08:01:50

That “XML” is actually formally invalid; all attribute values must be quoted. If you can, fix that.

set XML "
    <Top>
    <Name name='name' />
    <Group number='1'>
    <Member name='name1' test='test1' l='100'/>
    </Group>
    </Top>"

If you can't fix that, you might try using tDOM instead in HTML mode (which is a lot laxer about well-formedness constraints, though it also lower-cases all element and attribute names). Mind you, even with that it still fails on your particular input document:

% package require tdom
0.8.3
% set doc [dom parse -html $XML]
error "Unterminated element 'group' (within 'member')" at position 114
">
    <group number=1>
    <member name='name1' test='test1' l=100/>
    </group> <--Error-- 
    </Top>"

Fixing your document is the #1 thing to do!

tcl XML parsing error

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