[Exist-development] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException - Prefixed namespace bindings may not be empty.

[Alister P. <gsp...@gm...>]

Hi,
Trying to finish off the mail:get-messages function. The error appears when trying to store an email as xml in the /db.

I’ve hit a nasty little bug - nothing to do with eXist - and (surprise) related to mail from Microsoft Outlook - via Apple Mail. I now suspect that Apple Mail is the culprit.

I forwarded an email from my Inbox to another account and then retrieved it using mail:get-messages. 
The original html section is full of <o:p></o:p> tags. These are end-of-paragraph markers inserted by MS Word when creating HTML.

In the original email, the prefix and namespace is declared - but in the forwarded message, it is missing - consequently I get an error from SAXParser when trying to store this content in the DB. 

Is there some way to tell the parser to skip these (empty) elements? Or will I have to write a filter for the text before parsing it?

I’m using Wolfgang’s suggestion:
DocumentImpl html = ModuleUtils.htmlToXHtml(context, "alternative", new StreamSource(part.getInputStream()), null, null);
ElementImpl rootElem = (ElementImpl)html.getDocumentElement();

(Otherwise, mail:get-messages is working quite nicely.)

Thanks,
Alister.