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--></style></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Okay, so I actually stumbled upon a GDAL bug, cool.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I think another workaround could be to edit the QGIS variable setting in Options>System<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><img width=865 height=129 style='width:9.0104in;height:1.3437in' id="Afbeelding_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DC8408.C8EEF2E0"></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>But I do not know if this will introduce other issues in QGIS </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>😊</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Just to let you know, I just tried this approach, which indeed results in the VSI_CACHE variable not being listed anymore when typing set<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>AND the WFS to gpkg conversion was successful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Jeroen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Van:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com> <br><b>Verzonden:</b> maandag 12 januari 2026 19:07<br><b>Aan:</b> Jeroen Hovens <jeroen@groenebij.nl><br><b>CC:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] ogr2ogr explanations for error XML parsing of GML file failed?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>ok,<o:p></o:p></p><p>so the issue was related to QGIS setting VSI_CACHE=YES, which triggered a bug in /vsicurl_streaming/<o:p></o:p></p><p>So the workaround is that you type "set VSI_CACHE=" in the QGIS console<o:p></o:p></p><p>Proper fix queued in <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13690">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/13690</a><o:p></o:p></p><p>Even<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Le 12/01/2026 à 17:59, Jeroen Hovens a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi Even,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Find attached two txt files.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>env_var_winprompt is the normal windows prompt terminal after adding the QGIS bin folder to path</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>env_var_qgisterminal is the QGIS terminal as is, no changes made</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Jeroen</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Van:</b> Even Rouault <a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"><even.rouault@spatialys.com></a> <br><b>Verzonden:</b> maandag 12 januari 2026 17:34<br><b>Aan:</b> Jeroen Hovens <a href="mailto:jeroen@groenebij.nl"><jeroen@groenebij.nl></a>; <a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] ogr2ogr explanations for error XML parsing of GML file failed?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p>Hi Jeroen,<o:p></o:p></p><p>can you type "set" to list environment variables that are defined, both in a terminal from QGIS or the Windows prompt, (possibly redirecting to file, like "set > env_vars.txt"), and compare the differences<o:p></o:p></p><p>Even<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Le 12/01/2026 à 17:06, Jeroen Hovens via gdal-dev a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>I use QGIS on Windows10 which comes with GDAL. The latest QGIS LTR (3.40.14) uses GDAL 3.12.1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>In QGIS I can open a terminal (browser panel, rightclick a folder and select Open in Terminal) and immediately use ogr2ogr to convert a WFS to a geopackage, because QGIS has altered the path to include the GDAL directory</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>However, with some WFS services ogr2ogr throws an error. I have no trouble using those WFS services in QGIS.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>For instance, this one I can’t convert:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ogr2ogr -f gpkg test.gpkg WFS:<a href="https://service.pdok.nl/kadaster/bestuurlijkegebieden/wfs/v1_0?">"https://service.pdok.nl/kadaster/bestuurlijkegebieden/wfs/v1_0?"</a> Provincieg<span lang=EN-GB>ebied -overwrite -nln provincie_kadaster</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>But this one I can:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ogr2ogr -f gpkg test2.gpkg WFS:<a href="https://map.data.amsterdam.nl/maps/gebieden">"https://map.data.amsterdam.nl/maps/gebieden"</a> wijk -overwrite -nln amsterdam_wijk<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>The first WFS is part of a large Dutch open data organization and depending on which WFS I choose from them I see two different errors:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>ERROR 1: XML parsing of GML file failed : no element found at line 27, column 31065 (or different numbers)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Or</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>ERROR 1: XML parsing of GML file failed : unclosed token at line 555, column 9</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>I was able to compare a debug on with someone who was able to convert the WFS to a gpkg and this part was surely different</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>VSICURL: Read attempt beyond end of file</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>VSICURL: Read attempt beyond end of file</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>After this, the error appeared.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>To make things more complicated:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>When I open a Windows Prompt (terminal) and set a path to the GDAL directory in QGIS using set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.40.14\bin</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>I can also use ogr2ogr.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Interestingly, now I can convert both WFS datasets to gpkg.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>What could be different with the QGIS Terminal setting from a Windows Prompt setting with the path set that would explain the errors?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>What might be different in both WFS services that triggers these errors?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB>Jeroen Hovens</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>gdal-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>My software is free, but my time generally not.<o:p></o:p></pre></div></blockquote><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>My software is free, but my time generally not.<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>