Any way to get get the incomplete or malformed XML?

Is there any way to get the incomplete or malformed XML in our service ?.

Currently if someone is posting(using text/xml) an incomplete or malformed XML, the node becomes invalid and we do not get to see the full XML. We have a requirement where we need to save the incomplete or malformed XML for auditing purposes. How do we do that ?

Any inputs would be appreciated. THANKS

Balachandar

I believe this would require creating a custom content handler for the text/xml MIME type. This is possible but non-trivial.

You can’t do anything useful with malformed XML so immediately rejecting it in the content-handler layer is valid in my opinion.

Mark

Ditto on the custom content handler.

I wonder if an XQL query to get the src from the root node might work. I dunno if the nodes record the raw string or not, but it might worth a try to see if the original string is intact at the root node and thus recoverable for logging purposes.

If the xml is posted as a contentStream (text/unknown) instead of xml node (text/xml) then we can get the XML string and save for auditing.

Cheers
Guna

How does that suggestion help with this issue? The problem is that a partner is sending malformed XML with a content-type of text/xml. On an ongoing basis, their company wants to log the malformed XML in addition to rejecting it. Asking the partner to change the content type would not seem to help.

M