Jim Hu wrote:
Ran into a weird dump problem yesterday, which has me wondering if there's a problem with my artificially created xml for upload. Here's what happens. I have a script that builds wiki pages from an external source and embeds them in xml for upload via importDump. The script can be toggled to either generate a single page or a bunch of them. The same script failed to load some pages that load just fine if you specify them individually, but ImportDump.php does NOT crash during the import.
I suspect that there is something wrong with the upstream items, but I can't find it. The Brown Univ XML validator complains about the following:
line 3, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml: error (1102): tag uses GI for an undeclared element: mediawiki
That sounds like you didn't include a schema declaration (dunno what your thingy takes, maybe it's doctype only?)
There's an XML Schema description file -- you can use any XML Schema validator, such as one of the demo scripts packaged with the Apache Xalan java library, to run over your .xml file.
In theory, anyway. :)
line 166616, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml: error (1012): reference to undeclared entity: line 166616, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml: error (1003): entity (or its expansion) is invalid: line 166616, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml: error (1012): reference to undeclared entity: line 166616, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml: error (1003): entity (or its expansion) is invalid: line 184234, ecoliwiki20070730123135.xml:
The only predefined named character reference entities in XML are < > and &.
For any other characters that you really intend to be interpreted *as the character*, use decimal or binary codes -- eg   or  
For things you want to appear *as the HTML character reference* you need to escape the & as & for instance "&nbsp;" to be producing correct XML.
error (402): EOF encountered; no doctype declaration found: mediawiki
but I'm pretty sure these are all red herrings. So...is there a validator out there I should be using?
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)