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in thread XML cleanup - regex or ?

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.

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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.
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      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

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        XML doesn't have any mandatory attributes on any elements. It doesn't even define any elements. As I suggested, you are talking of validation errors and not parsing errors. Those are two unrelated concepts. You need not validate the XML the parse it and manipulate it.

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