Bug#1065270: Unable to open VTK file with appended data that were fine with previous versions (invalid token in vtkXMLDataParser)

Hi, Note that this is kind of a duplicate of [0]. I have marked [0] as blocking this one. Some further information: I tried to follow this up a bit. Looking at the upstream expat bugs [1] [2] it might very well be that vtk9 was relying in internals of expat's xml processing and their

Bug#1065270: Unable to open VTK file with appended data that were fine with previous versions (invalid token in vtkXMLDataParser)

Package: paraview Version: 5.11.2+dfsg-6+b9 Followup-For: Bug #1065270 The issue is still present with the current version of paraview (5.11.2+dfsg-6+b9) and libexpat (2.6.2-1), except that now downgrading to the previous version of expat to work around the issue is not possible anymore. --

Bug#1065270: Unable to open VTK file with appended data that were fine with previous versions (invalid token in vtkXMLDataParser)

Package: paraview Version: 5.11.2+dfsg-6+b1 Severity: important Per the title, after a recent upgrade opening any data file with appended data in 'raw' format, which was possible before the update, fails with errors like: vtkXMLDataParser (0x56138248c210): Error parsing XML in stream at line 27,