# parse the message (executed within eval so parsing errors are non-fatal)
	eval {
		$parsed_xml = XMLin(
			$message,
			forcearray => 1,
			keyattr => []
		);
	};

	# if parsing errors were encountered, write the appropriate message to the log
	if ($@) {
		&stop_it($ERROR, $XMLERROR, "Parsing error encountered - $@", $log_file);
	}

	$queue_name = $parsed_xml->{descriptor}->{inputQueue};
	&log_it($INFO, "inputQueue is $queue_name", $log_file);
	print Dumper($parsed_xml);