[OSM-dev] Osmosis on Australia extract

[Richard Chirgwin]

Brett Henderson wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to load the Australian OSM extract found here:
>> http://www.osmaustralia.org/osmausextract.php
>>
>> Into a MySQL database using Osmosis. The failure (short version here,
>> long below signature) is:
>>
>> Unable to parse xml file /home/richard/Desktop/australia.osm.
>> publicId=(null), systemId=(null), lineNumber=8043380, columnNumber=1.
>>         at
>> com.bretth.osmosis.core.xml.v0_5.XmlReader.run(XmlReader.java:114)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
>> Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: XML document structures must
>> start and end within the same entity.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>   
>
> Perhaps the xml file has been truncated.  Can you check the last lines
> of the file to make sure the xml file has been closed correctly?  The
> program creating the file may have crashed half way through the file
> creation.
>
> A command like tail should be able to do this for you.  There are
> other tools like xmlstarlet that might also help to validate xml files
> but I haven't used them before.
>
> Brett
>
>
Brett,

Bingo, I think. The file ends on a </way> tag rather than an </osm> tag.
I'll let the generator of the file know about this, and see what happens
if I add the </osm> tag manually. Thanks!

Richard