So,
XML::Twig is a great mod to use when chopping upa 500MB file without thrashing your machine. But, what I've come acros is a case where midway through that 500MB file, I get a line of XML with a bad character. It is something like this

<keywords>cat, dog, mouse ^\, car, plane, truck</keywords>

I'm parsing the file with this method:
$twig->parsefile( $filehandle );

When the bad character is discovered, the parsing abruptly stops. Ive also tried the safe_parsefile method, but that just stops without printing the error. I've also tried wrapping the whole thing in an eval, but that doesn't do much either. So, the question is:

Has anyone found a way to just skip this chunk of xml and continue happily along?

Regards,
Toby

In reply to XML::Twig Error Recovery by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.