Re: XML::Parser error

The char handler does not necessarily return all of the contiguous char data in one go. From the docs:

  Char                (Expat, String)
     This event is generated when non-markup is recognized. The
     non-markup sequence of characters is in String. A single
     non-markup sequence of characters may generate multiple
     calls to this handler. Whatever the encoding of the string
     in the original document, this is given to the handler in
     UTF-8.
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So you will have to concatenate the char data yourself. That said, I would likely use some higher level library rather than use XML::Parser directly, then you very likely wouldn't have to do the concatenating yourself.

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Re^2: XML::Parser error by mwinterer (Initiate) on Sep 11, 2013 at 21:50 UTC
Thanks. That helped how to fix for now. Any suggestions on what higher level module would be good to use? Basically I am parsing XML files delivered every 15 minutes to my server to parse and load into the DB. I looked around when developing and didn't really see anything that would fit that. Maybe I didn't look hard enough though.	[reply]
Re^3: XML::Parser error by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 11, 2013 at 22:02 UTC
I'm partial to XML::Rules. Others like XML::Twig. Either is good if the docs are large and you should be processing the doc as you read it. XML::LibXML can be appropriate also (XPath support is great if you need that sort of thing).	[reply]