One of my company's 'targetted ads' systems requires clients to give us information on their products in PML, a proprietary XML based format. Unfortunately, transfer of said information is handled by Sales people on both ends, without (seemingly), anyone technical being involved.
As a result, I am occasionally plagued with requests to sort people lives who could tell valid XML from their own arse with the aid of a map. Fortunately, the one guy with a clue in the whole of their department has managed to arm himself with an XML validator, but this still doesn't catch all the faulty PML files they recieve.
So, that got me wondering, does a Perl module exist that can take in a DTD and an XML file, and check not only if the file is XML compliant, but complies with the Doctype Declaration?
I have tried several searches on CPAN, Google, and WebTop, but thus far to no avail :-(

(p.s. apologies for any excess vitriol in this post - it's been a looong week)

In reply to Doctype specific XML Validator by kilinrax

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