Dear Monks,
I am using XML::Simple and trying to parse a file. Here is my sample code. 
use XML::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;
$| += 1;
opendir TMP,'/u1/tmptest';
my @files = grep  /xml$/,  grep { - r } readdir TMP;
chdir '/u1/tmptest';
my $flag = 0;
foreach my $file (@files){
    my $tmp_xml = XMLin("./$file");
        process($tmp_xml);
}
sub process {
    my $xml = shift;
    my $title  =  $xml->{head}->{title};
....
}

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It gives me error: 
Character reference & #133; refers to an illegal XML character (\205)
When I checked the particular file, it has & #133; character inside.

What I like to do is either correct the problem and proceed or ignore the file. I don't have control over the source files. If I don't process this file it gives error for some other similar character .. ex: & #146;

In CB, podmaster pointed out that it XML::Simple which is based on XML::Parser dies upon invalid xml. I like to find some solution at this point.

Thanks,
artist

(Note: In the above examples & and # should not have space between them.. it's just that PM tries to interprete the character.)

In reply to XML::Simple exit problem by artist

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