Re: XML cleanup - regex or ?

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It sounds as though you wish to verify that the XML conforms to a particular DTD specification.

XML::Rules looks like a good fit for your needs.

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Re^2: XML cleanup - regex or ? by ethrbunny (Monk) on Sep 21, 2010 at 15:06 UTC
The issue is that the file won't parse at all until I remove the noisy entries. I comb through it line by line looking for errors before I pass it to XML::Twig.	[reply]
Re^3: XML cleanup - regex or ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 21, 2010 at 16:27 UTC
It's not an XML error to be missing a `meow` attribute on a `cat` element. Did you misrepresent the problem, or are you actually getting the error when you validate the XML against a schema? There's no reason you can't do that after removing the offending elements.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: XML cleanup - regex or ? by dHarry (Abbot) on Sep 22, 2010 at 07:21 UTC
It's not an XML error to be missing a meow attribute on a cat element. That depends, if the attribute is mandatory it would be an error. Or do you mean something else by XML error? I'm thinking XSD here but I recall that with DTD's you can also specify attributes and make them "required". Cheers Harry	[reply]
Re^5: XML cleanup - regex or ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 22, 2010 at 15:36 UTC
Re^6: XML cleanup - regex or ? by dHarry (Abbot) on Sep 22, 2010 at 16:29 UTC
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