Hi Jenda,

Thanks for the feedback.

The idea of validating before parsing is indeed what I intend to do in my final project. I was just doing a dry run in a test script to get comfortable with the modules before making changes to my code branch.

That being said, good thoughts!! I will take a look at the XML::Rules module. I am currently upgrading my libxml2 on my mac. It comes with 2.6.16 installed and the latest is 2.7* .... that being said, I have a pretty rudimentary regex and it should pass. It passes in my XML Editor when it validates against the said XML Schema.