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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb b/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb index bce4ba4c20..2cfcf02308 100644 --- a/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb +++ b/lib/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb @@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ module REXML "apos" => [/'/, "'", "'", /'/] } + + ###################################################################### + # These are patterns to identify common markup errors, to make the + # error messages more informative. + ###################################################################### + MISSING_ATTRIBUTE_QUOTES = /^<#{NAME_STR}\s+#{NAME_STR}\s*=\s*[^"']/um + def initialize( source ) self.stream = source end @@ -335,7 +342,11 @@ module REXML else # Get the next tag md = @source.match(TAG_MATCH, true) - raise REXML::ParseException.new("malformed XML: missing tag start", @source) unless md + unless md + # Check for missing attribute quotes + raise REXML::ParseException.new("missing attribute quote", @source) if @source.match(MISSING_ATTRIBUTE_QUOTES ) + raise REXML::ParseException.new("malformed XML: missing tag start", @source) + end attrs = [] if md[2].size > 0 attrs = md[2].scan( ATTRIBUTE_PATTERN ) |