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Subject: Re: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:04:03 -0700
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On 10/20/2011 8:41 AM, laredotornado wrote:

> I'm using Java 6.  I'm trying to parse some well-formed (or at least
> that's what I thought) XML but am getting a "SAXParseException:


It worked for me.


> Premature end of file" exception (below).  The code I'm using is


No, this is not the code.  There's a syntax error: inputStream and 
xmlInputStream are being confused here, xmlInputStream is not declared.


>
> 		xml = xml.trim();
> 		final InputStream inputStream = new
> ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes());
> 		final DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
> DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
> 		final DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
> 		final Document doc = db.parse(xmlInputStream);
>
> The block I'm trying to parse is below.  Can anyone see how it is mal-
> formed?  Barring that, do you know a better way of parsing the string?


Yes, there's a syntax error in the XML.  Construct a proper SSCCE to see it.