in reply to Re^2: XML Parsing Suggestions?
in thread XML Parsing Suggestions?

Comments aren't useful data. If they were, they wouldn't be comments. :-)

But, yes, you can parse comments in Stream mode. (If you couldn't, you couldn't get at them in any other mode as all XML::Parser modes are implemented as Stream mode.) The Comment handler (which is readily visible when you read the documentation is probably what you're looking for.

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