in reply to Re^2: XML::Parser XML validation
in thread XML::Parser XML validation

Yes. All bets are off for an XML document with errors. The first error found may actually not be the first error in the document: it is just the place where the parser got stuck.

Consider the following:

<a>
   <d>
      <e>
      </e>
   </b>
</a>

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Where is the error? Should <d> be <b> or should </b> be </d>? Or perhaps they should both be <f> ... </f> tags? How is the parser to know? To be sure the XML is not only well formed but also correct, you will have to validate the XML according to a DTD or Schema definition.

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