How Check if a XML file if well formed using delphi?
You can use the IXMLDOMParseError
interface returned by the MSXML DOMDocument
this interface return a serie of properties which help you to identify the problem.
- errorCode Contains the error code of the last parse error. Read-only.
- filepos Contains the absolute file position where the error occurred. Read-only.
- line Specifies the line number that contains the error. Read-only.
- linepos Contains the character position within the line where the error occurred.
- reason Describes the reason for the error. Read-only.
- srcText Returns the full text of the line containing the error. Read-only.
- url Contains the URL of the XML document containing the last error. Read-only.
check these two functions which uses the MSXML 6.0 (you can use another versions as well)
uses
Variants,
Comobj,
SysUtils;
function IsValidXML(const XmlStr :string;var ErrorMsg:string) : Boolean;
var
XmlDoc : OleVariant;
begin
XmlDoc := CreateOleObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0');
try
XmlDoc.Async := False;
XmlDoc.validateOnParse := True;
Result:=(XmlDoc.LoadXML(XmlStr)) and (XmlDoc.parseError.errorCode = 0);
if not Result then
ErrorMsg:=Format('Error Code : %s Msg : %s line : %s Character Position : %s Pos in file : %s',
[XmlDoc.parseError.errorCode,XmlDoc.parseError.reason,XmlDoc.parseError.Line,XmlDoc.parseError.linepos,XmlDoc.parseError.filepos]);
finally
XmlDoc:=Unassigned;
end;
end;
function IsValidXMLFile(const XmlFile :TFileName;var ErrorMsg:string) : Boolean;
var
XmlDoc : OleVariant;
begin
XmlDoc := CreateOleObject('Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0');
try
XmlDoc.Async := False;
XmlDoc.validateOnParse := True;
Result:=(XmlDoc.Load(XmlFile)) and (XmlDoc.parseError.errorCode = 0);
if not Result then
ErrorMsg:=Format('Error Code : %s Msg : %s line : %s Character Position : %s Pos in file : %s',
[XmlDoc.parseError.errorCode,XmlDoc.parseError.reason,XmlDoc.parseError.Line,XmlDoc.parseError.linepos,XmlDoc.parseError.filepos]);
finally
XmlDoc:=Unassigned;
end;
end;
How are you creating/receiving the XML? Any sensible parser would catch this.
For example, using OmniXML
uses
OmniXML;
type
TForm1=class(TForm)
Memo1: TMemo;
//...
private
FXMLDoc: IXMLDocument;
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
procedure CheckXML;
end;
implementation
uses
OmniXMLUtils;
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
// Load your sample XML. Can also do Memo1.Text := YourXML
Memo1.Lines.LoadFromFile('YourXMLFile.xml');
end;
procedure TForm1.CheckXML;
begin
FXMLDoc := CreateXMLDoc;
// The next line raises an exception with your sample file.
XMLLoadFromAnsiString(FXMLDoc, Memo1.Text);
end;