Hi,

I've been chasing my tail for way to long on this one.

I basically have an XML document and want to remove the last incomplete tag so that I am left with the first two complete XML lines. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><TransactionPart Sub='PRFN
+' Part='1' Id='ALAABADOCKAGDI'><Event Row='1' File='RELATIONSHIP_FILE
+' ISN='23290' Time='2005/11/11-17:05:39' Op='Update'></TransactionPar
+t>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><TransactionPart Sub='PRF'
+ Part='1' Id='AABADOCKAGDI'><Event Row='1' File='RELATIONSHIP_FILE' I
+SN='2180' Time='2005/11/11-17:05:39' Op='Update'></TransactionPart>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><TransactionPart Sub='PRFN
+' Part='1' Id='AABADOCKAGDI'><Event Row='1' File='PRODUCT_RELATIONSHI
+P_FILE' ISN='1

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I have tried pattern matching the last end tag and have managed to extract the last fragment: 
my $terminator = "<\/notification>|<\/TransactionPart>";

$msg_payload =~ /($terminator?([^$terminator]*))$/;

$truncate = $';

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But the prematch doesn't give me the rest of the document, which is what I want.

So I tried to pattern match $truncate in the original string in the hopes of pulling out everything before it but that was sadly not to be for some unknown reason.

So what regexp magic can I use to extract the complete first n complete xml elements?

Many Thanks,
Starbuck

In reply to Regexp magic needed, truncate incomplete XML by starbuck

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