Yes, "XML". I know this isn't XMLMonks.org, but gosh-darnit, I can't think of a group of experts I'd rather ask about this... and I can't think of a better language to code the solution in...
So -- anyone aware of existing applications/scripts to "fix" non-well-formed XML, where the only sin is overlapping elements? (I.e., otherwise well-formed)
For example, given the following XML snippet: 
<A><B>...</A></B>

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I'd like to switch the end-tags. In this example, A and B have precisely the same content, so this fix is straightforward and well-defined. (I'm ignoring DTD/schema enforcement here.) Generalizing a bit, these can nest deeper and get less trivial: 
<D><A><B><C>...</D></C></B></A>

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...or (shudder)... 
<D><A><B><C>...</D></A></C></B>

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Note all begin-tags have a corresponding end-tag.

Also, I dream of one day finding an elegant way to handle non-trivial overlapping elements, call them "pseudo-elements". I know none of the current standards (XML parsers, XPath/XSL/...) could handle that, naturally, so it wouldn't be as useful with them. This is a much harder problem, and one I think XML-ers just consider "out-of-scope". But a guy can dream, can't he?

Anybody got advice here? Any modules that might help?
Thanks,
Jim W.

In reply to Fixing ill-formed XML by mush4brains

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