Side topic on XML

is there anything in linux comparable to xmlspy from the windows world ?

Alex

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:23:12PM +1000, Louis wrote:
> Hi James:
> 
> > Well, that's probably what it means. XML parsers are generally pretty
> good at spotting errors. If you're able to reveal the source of your
> XML, perhaps we could find the error. Of course, that may not be much
> help unless you also control the source of the RSS.
> 
> [Louis] I am using YahooNews url
> 
> http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=some+keyword
> 
> So I cannot control the source. Sometimes I get the error. Not all the time.
> 
> > The other option to consider is that there are XML parsers around that
> will deal with dodgy XML. It's been too long since I've used the perl
> XML libs, bit there might even be a flag you can set to get them to
> work.
> 
> [Louis] I'll have to read about this from perldoc of XML::RSS.
> 
> > If you just want to catch the error, then you need to use eval. Like
> this:
> 
> eval {
>    # do stuff
> };
> warn "something broke" if $@;
> 
> [Louis] Do u mean
> 
> eval {
> 
>     my $rssobj = "";
>     $rssobj = new XML::RSS;
> 
>     $url = YahooNewsUrl;
> 
>     $response = $browser->get($url); # assuming LWP is defined before eval
> 
>     if (!($response->is_success)) { # flag some error/warning; }
> 
>     my $temp = $response->content();
> 
>     # parse the RSS content
>     $rssobj->parse($temp); # Is the error I reported happening here ???
> }
> warn "something broke" if $@;
> 
> Cheers.
> 
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