Can't map empty fields [#989948]

* warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
[simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 15: parser error :
expected '>' in
/home/devsand/public_html/drupalxml/sites/all/modules/feeds_xpathparser/FeedsXPathParser.inc
on line 465.
    * warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
[simplexmlelement.--construct]: </product_record in /home/devsand/public_html/drupalxml/sites/all/modules/feeds_xpathparser/FeedsXPathParser.inc
on line 465.
    * warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
[simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in
/home/devsand/public_html/drupalxml/sites/all/modules/feeds_xpathparser/FeedsXPathParser.inc
on line 465.
    * String could not be parsed as XML

Hey guys minor problem, trying to do some exploratory tests to see if we can switch from our current CMS over to Drupal. I have a bunch of XML files I am trying to parse however at times there are empty fields within the xml and I think this is causing the error above. As much as I would love to fix the xml files that is out of my hands as they are provided by a third party, does anyone know how to get the parser to just skip over empty fields?

thanks

Comments

Comment #1

twistor CreditAttribution: twistor commented 6 February 2011 at 17:11

Assigned:	Unassigned	» twistor
Status:	Active	» Fixed

It looks like the XML is invalid. Having empty fields should just return empty values. You could try installing tidy which this module supports to clean up the XML. Feel free to open this back up if you still have any problems.