XML is not trivial to parse so your options are do a lot of work yourself or get someone else to do a lot of work for you. People have actually done that work and provide it in a variety of modules.

If your boss won't allow you to use code in the form of existing modules why should he allow you to use equivelent code obtained from somewhere else?

Sure, something that validates a trivial subset of XML could be written in reasonable time. But how small a subset is really useful? What can be done with simple code is very trivial indeed!

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: Need help in xml well formedness checker. by GrandFather
in thread Need help in xml well formedness checker. by jayakumark

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