I'm using a program (by Microsoft, no less) that generates an extremely large (80MB) XML file. In some cases, this program is known to output malformed XML. Closing tags are missing in much of the file. There is a possibility this could be done with some tool out there, but I'd really like to see if Perl can do this quickly and easily with existing modules.

An example of the malformed XML looks like: 

   <cc:files>
      <o:destination><![CDATA[/Documents/some file.pdf]]></o:destinati
+on>
      <y:name><![CDATA[some file.pdf]]></y:name>
         <r:DenyAccess dt="mv.string"></r:DenyAccess>
      <o:version>
         <d:contentclass><![CDATA[urn:content-classes:baseddocument]]>
+</d:contentclass>
         <o:source><![CDATA[\sources\some file.pdf\some file.pdf]]></o
+:source>
         <a:FriendlyVersionID>1.0</a:FriendlyVersionID>
         <a:owner><![CDATA[SERVER\iusr_server]]></a:owner>
         <a:CreatedTimeStamp>2/1/2005 6:41:30 PM</a:CreatedTimeStamp>
         <a:DocumentState>approved</a:DocumentState>
         <a:IsCurrentVersion>False</a:IsCurrentVersion>
   </cc:files>

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Here, you can see that <o:version> does not have a closing tag. While I do not have a DTD or Schema of this file, I believe I can make the assumption that <o:version> encloses everything up to </cc:files>. This pattern of missing </o:version> tags repeats over and over throughout the XML file for each file that it describes (there are 20,000+ files). But, there are some cases in the XML where the </o:version> closing tag does appear where it should. The process needs to determine if the tag is missing. Heck, if any closing tag is missing.

I know XML::LibXML won't like it, because it must be well-formed. I imagine XML::Parser could do this, but I can't really visualize how to do it. Could someone please offer some wisdom?

In reply to Repair malformed XML by spoulson

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