From: Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail@...>
Date: 2007-09-20T03:53:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Parse XML that isn't well formed

On 9/19/07, Milo Thurston <knirirr@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some XML looking like the following, other than being very much
> larger (some files are up to 2GB):
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>         <server_url>http://myserver.edu/data/</server_url>
>         <server_name>myserver.edu</server_name>
>         <uploads>
>                 <result>
>                         <dir>/storage/data/results/</dir>
>                         <result_name>hadcm3l_00012_00000118_0</result_name>
>                         <file_info>
>                         <name>hadcm3l_00012_00000118_0_6.zip</name>
>                         <nbytes>5154055</nbytes>
>                         <md5_checksum>485600296bb601ab4a3d1d49a9fb1c86</md5_checksum>
>                         </file_info>
>                         <file_info>
>                         <name>hadcm3l_00012_00000118_0_7.zip</name>
>                         <nbytes>5153055</nbytes>
>                         <md5_checksum>36a600296cb60229a3d1d49a9fb1a10</md5_checksum>
>                         </file_info>
>                 </result>
>         </uploads>
> </xml>
>

Note that there should be no </xml> - the line at the top is a
declaration, not an opening tag. Where did </xml> come from? What
happens if you remove that from the data?

-A