Dear deities,
I am writing an RSS aggregator and have chosen the XML::RSS parser to read the feeds. I have it all working except when there is an error in the feeds XML file. The documentation for XML::RSS states that a die is produced when there is an error in the parsed XML but I would like to trap this error and not die. I would then do a next to continue onto the next feed, maybe generating my own error message etc.
I am not sure how to wrap the XML::RSS in some form of error checking...
Example pseudo code: 
!/usr/bin/perl -T
$| = 1;

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::RSS;
use LWP::Simple;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $there_is_a_feed_to_be_read = "true";
my $url_to_read = "http://xxx.xml";
my $url2parse;
my $rss;

while ( $there_is_a_feed_to_be_read ) {
  $rss = new XML::RSS;
  $url2parse = get( $url_to_read );
  die "Could not retrieve $url_to_read" unless $url2parse;

# all works up to this point but if there is an error in the
# XML being read the next command chokes.
# What I am looking for is some sort of wrapper to do a next
# if there is a problem so we just step over the faulty feed

  $rss->parse($url2parse);

# deal with the returned XML information here
# .
# .
# .

}

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Not wanting to name names but at the present time the following feed has a raw & symbol in the text that the parser is tripping over.
http://developer.apple.com/rss/adcheadlines.rss
Many thanks in advance
3d

In reply to Trapping Errors from XML::RSS by 3dkiwi

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