Hi Monks!
I am parsing XML files and sometimes some of these XML files will come not well formatted causing a Software Error on the browser page, I am trying to print an error other than that by trapping this error if it happens, but I can't get the code to work, may some of you would help by looking into my code here, or show me a better way of doing this.
Here is the code: 

# ... this is the part of the code I am trying to make work
my $xp;
# initialize parser object and parse the string
   $xp = XML::XPath->new( ErrorContext => 2 );

eval { $xp->parsefile( $open_this ); }; # $open_this is the xml file
 
# report any error that stopped parsing
if( $@ ) {
    $@ =~ s/at \/.*?$//s; # remove module line number
    print STDERR "\nERROR::: $open_this isn't well formated file:\n$@\
+n";
}
...

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Thank you!

In reply to Trapping XML error using Perl by Anonymous Monk

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