Re: Parsing dodgy XML

Although you can work around this, the proper answer is to keep pushing back to the client to say "I will need an XML file from you... please let me know when you have an XML file".

Any file that is "mostly XML" is not XML. It's like being "mostly pregnant": there's no such thing.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re^2: Parsing dodgy XML by clinton (Priest) on Sep 20, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
Likelihood of refusing bad XML tends towards zero as desperation to win new business tends towards infinity.... I will be giving them an XSD and a small script to test validation, but if they (and 'they' are a national newspaper) use the current XML, then getting them to change it may prove difficult.	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing dodgy XML by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 20, 2006 at 15:42 UTC
If nobody tells them they are not generating XML, how will they know there's a problem? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Parsing dodgy XML by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2006 at 19:46 UTC
They're the client; it's your job to make them happy. If they don't want to give you XML, they don't have to. If you want to get paid, you have to deal with what you're given, not what you wish you were given.	[reply]
Re^5: Parsing dodgy XML by bart (Canon) on Sep 21, 2006 at 06:26 UTC
Re^5: Parsing dodgy XML by codeacrobat (Chaplain) on Sep 20, 2006 at 21:19 UTC