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in thread Repair malformed XML

I am a little lost here. You told us that all the problems you have with your XML is that it has some unclosed tags. XML::LibXML::Parser's recover flag will handle it, as the manual tells:

"The recover mode helps to recover documents that are almost wellformed very efficiently. That is for example a document that forgets to close the document tag (or any other tag inside the document)."

Now, you seem to indicate that some tags in your XML are corrupt. Well, I do not really know, how to handle that one...

Also, I do not think that you hit some obscure size limitations of XML::LibXML (you seem to get the error at the 85th input line).

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Re^4: Repair malformed XML
by spoulson (Beadle) on Feb 03, 2005 at 17:55 UTC
    Sorry if I was unclear. The XML data is not corrupt. It appears that LibXML cannot load an 80MB XML without corrupting its own data. When I search within the XML, I do not find the offending parser error on line 85, or anywhere in the file.

    So, I believe it to be a size limitation that causes internal memory management issues. Why 85th line? Maybe a pointer wrapped and happened to clobber the 85th line. Who knows. :/

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