725931 - Firefox is unable to parse large xml

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Jithin Emmanuel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120209 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120209031242

Steps to reproduce:

I was trying to load a 1.1 M xml from a Webservice output


Actual results:

Fiirefox is not able to parse it properly. It gives error at different line numbers on each try.

XML Parsing Error: unclosed token




Expected results:

It should have loaded the xml correctly. Chrome loads the XML correctly. I am also facing a similar issue with large JSON files. Json view addon exhibits the same behavior as the XML one I am reporting here. It breaks in middle.

Comment 1

[Jesper Hansen]

Please provide a testcase

Comment 2

[Jithin Emmanuel]

I dont have a test case since the one in which I got this error is from a service internal to our company.
The service returns xml and I requested 500 hits at which point it broke.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Can you generate a sample file that does not contain private data? Maybe th author of the application could.

Comment 4

[Jithin Emmanuel]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #3)
> Can you generate a sample file that does not contain private data? Maybe th
> author of the application could.

I will try to generate the data. But I am not sure how to go about it. If I strip out my company specific data then how will I generate data of same size.

From what I observe when parsing breaks and if I do view source I can see that the xml is not fully loaded. I observe the same with json view addon. Json data is not fully loaded when its trying to parse. (Though json is fully loaded without the addon)

I am wondering if this is a case when the parser logic mistakenly thinks that the end of stream has reached.

Comment 5

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

Hi Jithin, sorry this went unanswered for so long, but at this point I don't think we have enough information to reproduce the bug. I'm closing the report. If you still have this issue can you let us know? Thanks!