Parsing

Java 6 includes STaX , when I tried to parse a Evernote backup file with it, I got a OOME error. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer.append(XMLStringBuffer.java:205) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.refresh(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1520) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.invokeListeners(XMLEntityScanner.java:2070) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.peekChar(XMLEntityScanner.java:486) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2679) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:548) at Googling a bit I found a bug report 6536111. It says that this should be fixed in 1.6.0_14. But I tried Sun 1.6.0_16 and no luck. I got the exact same thing. ...

UPDATE: It seems that Blinklist’s JSON export doesn’t work any more, and delicious now requires OAuth authentication for new accounts (which rubilicious doesn’t support). So I created another script to transform Blinklist’s CSV format to HTML bookmark format which you can import to delicious. It’s done. I was suffering constant problems with BlinkList and I decided to move to del.icio.us. I also decided to rescue the old powermarks 3.5 bookmarks from the oblivion and import them to del.icio.us too. ...