Of course not:

What if the XML includes this: <!-- <tag>this tag commented out</tag> -->? Though this might look contrived, you can actually find it in the XML for the XML recommendation itself.

Then what if the XML is: 

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "foo.dtd" []>
  <foo>&bar</foo>

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You have no idea what's inside the entity. it could be just text, or it could include 278 unique tags. Note that this breaks all 3 pieces of code above, as XML::Parser (and thus pyx) do not expand external entities. The easiest solution I found uses... XML::Twig as usual!.

perl -MXML::Twig -e'XML::Twig->new( expand_external_ents => 1)->parsefile( shift )->print'

will expand external entities, and then the regular pyx or XML::Parser solution will work.

In reply to Re: Re: Count number of unique tags in XML files by mirod
in thread Count number of unique tags in XML files by leriksen

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