Hi All

I receive XML files from my client with a list of orders. The XML (over which I have no control) may or may not contain some dodgy characters, which would cause XML parsing to fail.

However, I would like to process all the orders that I can, and report errors on the dodgy ones.

My understanding is that, if I use 

   $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
   $doc = $parser->parse_file( $xmlfilename );

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then the file will be parsed quickly, but either succeed or fail in its entirety.

I was thinking about using this as the first method, for speed, and if it fails, resort to something like: 

    $p = XML:LibXML->new();
    local $/='</order>';
    open (FH,'<:utf8',$filename) or die $!;
    while (my $order = <FH>) {
        $order=~s/^.*?<order>/<order>/gs;
        my $xml = <<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<orders>
$order
</orders>
XML

         my $doc = eval {$parser->parse_string($xml)};
         if ($@) {
              warn ("error : $@");
              next;
         }
         process_orders($doc);
     }

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Or should I be creating one master document and importing/adopting nodes? Or a different approach entirely? thanks

In reply to Parsing dodgy XML by clinton

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