Re: [Tclxml-users] Activestate Tcl segvs using TclDOM

[Derek F. <fo...@hu...>]

> TclDOM is all-Tcl, so it would be surprising to get a
> segv.  However, ActiveTcl includes TclExpat (the expat
> wrapper for TclXML).  I suspect that it is TclXML/expat
> segv'ing while parsing the XML document.

Someone on c.l.t reproduced it with a core, and the crash was indeed in that 
TclExpat thing. I compiled a Tcl-8.3.4.3 from scratch and it didn't fail 
there.

> Try parsing using the Tcl parser, ie
>
> set doc [dom::parse $xml -parser tcl]

Ah! That makes the problem go away, at least in a quick test I just ran. 
That's great - I was in an embarrassing hole for a while there. Thanks.

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