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in thread XML::Simple cannot parse Simple XML file

There is no such thing as "invalid XML".

So if you make a typo that's a syntax error in Perl, it's no longer Perl? Although I understand what you're saying, I don't agree with how you said it. 

"He's not a patient person." = "He's an impatient person."
"This is not valid XML."     = "This is invalid XML."

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It's like, say you define a "table" as "a thing for sitting stuff on that has four legs". Then you find another thing that you could sit stuff on, except one of the legs is missing. Wouldn't you say that it's a broken table rather than say that broken tables don't exist?

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Re^6: XML::Simple cannot parse Simple XML file
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2006 at 10:29 UTC

    Of course you go through typos when you're developing stuff - whether it's Perl, XML or anything else. That's not the issue. The issue is people who publish documents that claim to be XML but which don't conform to the specification. And here, we're not talking about a typo. We're talking about a tag name that starts with a disallowed character - that's a pretty major problem in my opinion and people shouldn't work around it.

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