[Bioperl-l] Re: bad entries in interpro again

[Mikko Arvas]

Hi,

At 13:49 1.12.2004 -0800, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

>On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, at 08:16  AM, Mikko Arvas wrote:
>
>>Is the &apos the source of the problem?
>Did you try to take it out and see what happens? I.e., you can answer this 
>yourself easily.
>I would have thought that it's not the problem, but it'd be great if you 
>or somebody else helps out by testing what was suggested.

Sorry about that I should have tested it before mailing. The problem is not 
non-ascii characters it seems to be specifically the combination of two & 
inside individual <>. I tried various combinations and other non-ascii 
characters (even in abundance) don't break it and a single & does neither.

Here is again the problematic line:
<interpro id="IPR002073" name="3&apos;5&apos;-cyclic nucleotide 
phosphodiesterase" type="Domain" parent_id="IPR003607">

And its error:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 2, column 54, byte 132 
at  /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm
line 187

So which way to proceed?

>>Is it really a problem in BioPerl or in expat?
>
>If the problem is outside of Interpro, it's Expat, not Bioperl. It's the 
>XML parser library that threw up.
>
>>  Is somebody trying to solve the problem for Bioperl now
>>and is there any sensible thing that the interpro team could do to help?
>
>Depends on where the problem is. It appears that the Interpro team already 
>eliminated the double quotes in names. The is some hard-coded stuff in 
>interpro.pm that needs to be removed,  and I heard Allen say he'll work on 
>that.
>
>         -hilmar

Cheers,
mikko



Mikko Arvas
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