I have an XML-file which contains different tags, among them a <txt> tag.
<main>
    <txt>
        this is text. don't forget to look at <a href="http://perlmonk
+s.org">perlmonks</a>
        don't you just hate <blink>blinking</blink> text?
    </txt>
</main>

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Now what I want is to be able to tell the XML::Parser object to ignore any tags that
appear within the <txt> elements. I want this because there appear html-elements within
the <txt> tags, like <img src="img.png"> or <hr>, which
as we all know, is not valid xml.

So, is there a way for XML::Parser to not parse content below a
certain depth, or better yet, ignore content within certain tags?

With ignore, i mean to pass along as a Cdata string to the
appropiate handler, without processing it further.

I've read the whole manpage on XML::Parser, and the only thing that even comes close
seems to be the Stream_Delimiter option, which on encountering a certain string stops
parsing totally.

Thanks.

-- ar0n | Just Another Perl Joe

In reply to Maximum parsing depth with XML::Parser? by ar0n

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