If I was feeling pedantic I'd point out that there's no such thing as "ill-formed XML". It's either XML (in which case it's well-formed) or it isn't XML.

But seriously, your best bet is to got back to the source and fix that. If it's a program that is in your control then fix the bugs in it. If it's an external data source then go bakc to the suppliers and point out that they aren't sending you XML as they said they would.

Whoever decided that browsers would "do their best" with invalid HTML was responsible for the nightmare of non-validating web pages that we have at the moment. XML is supposed to (partly) be a reaction to that. You can't be lenient with non-XML that claims to be XML. That way lies madness.

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In reply to Re: Fixing ill-formed XML by davorg
in thread Fixing ill-formed XML by mush4brains

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