Get errors and line no's while parsing XML file

kalyanrajsista has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all

I'm validating one XML using XML::LibXML module using XSD and if there are any errors in forming the XML it is returning all the errors.

Problem here is that If I'm trying to validate a huge file say 50MB, its very hard for me to find where exactly is the problem. Is there any way that I can show the user the error along with line number in the message using any Perl Module

Many Thanks

use strict;
use XML::LibXML;

my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;

my $doc;
my $RAW_FILE = 'sample.xml';

eval { $doc = $parser->parse_file($RAW_FILE); };
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Re: Get errors and line no's while parsing XML file by almut (Canon) on May 20, 2010 at 13:03 UTC
What do you get if you inspect `$@` in case an error is thrown? (IIRC, the error messages do include line number information.) Update: for example, when I add the line `print $@ if $@;` [download] to your code snippet, and with a `sample.xml` containing `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mydoc> <foo> <bar>... </bar_> </foo> </mydoc>` [download] I do get: `$ ./840913.pl sample.xml:5: parser error : expected '>' </bar_> ^ at ./840913.pl line 11` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: Get errors and line no's while parsing XML file by Krambambuli (Curate) on May 20, 2010 at 13:01 UTC
Maybe it would suffice to just print out $. ($INPUT_LINE_NUMBER) together with the error code? Krambambuli ---	[reply]