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Digester: The element type "user" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</user>"

I'm using Digester to parse a xml file and I get the following error:

May 3, 2011 6:41:25 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester fatalError
SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 2336608 column 3: The element type "user" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</user>".
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "user" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</user>".

However 2336608 is the last line of my text file. I guess I'm opening a tag and I never close it. Do you know how can I find it and fix it, in big text files ?

thanks

Solution

  • $ grep -Hin "</\?user>" Text.xml will print out every line with either or . If they're not nested, then you should be able to inspect that output fand find the missing close tag (when immediately follows . A script do do the same:

    https://gist.github.com/953837

    This assumes that the open and close tags are on different lines.