Re: testing if XML is well-formed

[Alan Dickey]

Brian Gibson wrote:

This might sound like a dumb question but.... does anyone know of a module or 
script that simply checks an XML file to see if it is well-formed or not (the 
validity of the XML is not an issue, but if there is an easy way to check that 
too then I am all for it!)

My search around CPAN got pretty frustrating.

 

You can use XML::Parser to do a simple well-formedness check,
like this:
   require XML::Parser;
   my $p1 = new XML::Parser(ErrorContext => 3);
   eval{$p1->parse($xml)}; # assume document in $xml
   print "Not well formed!\n$@" if $@; # fatal error
HTH

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