marudor
Validation errors - line number overflow
Hi, thanks for doing this :)
While I would love some insight into how I can do streaming validation - my immediate problem is as follows for a large files:
[ { message: "Element 'prices': Missing child element(s). Expected is ( price ).\n", line: 16964 }, { message: "Element 'prices': Missing child element(s). Expected is ( price ).\n", line: 17248 }, { message: "Element 'prices': Missing child element(s). Expected is ( price ).\n", line: 65535 }, { message: "Element 'floor_size': '' is not a valid value of the atomic type 'xs:decimal'.\n", line: 65535 }]
as you can see the line number is pegged, how can I go about increasing the range of line values returned?
Any news regarding this issue? I'm on 0.26.6 and this is still a problem. I'm validating a file with almost 4 million lines, so the line number is only relevant on the first 2% of the entire file.
Using the big_lines parser option might help. This is a limitation in libxml2 — it stores line numbers internally as a short, so they’re limited to 16 bits on most systems. The big_lines option tries to work around that, but I believe it might be somewhat buggy.
Linking to the newer issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/361
