Hi,

I've got crappy formatted xml files that don't have the over-arching tags:
<record>
    <name>NAME1</name>
</record>
<record>
    <name>NAME2</name>
</record>

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NOTE-> That's the whole file. There isn't any top most or bottom most tag to encapsulate the above XML.

The problem is, when I go to parse it, it thinks that the remaining XML is junk in the XML file. For XML parsing, I was thinking I could write a new temp file with a starting tag, write the original xml file into the temp file, and then concat the closing line. Parse it, then erase it.

I'm not sure if that's the best approach or not, if there is a better way to do it, I'm all ears. I'm not as worried about getting code itself, as if this the best approach or not
Thanks!

In reply to XML Cleanup by ecuguru

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