Re: Recovering from errors in an XML "stream"

On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 22:41 -0400, Webb Scales wrote:
> the 
> fact remains that I don't control the text that I'm trying to parse,
> and I still need to parse it, even though it's not "well-formed".

You may need to write some form of pre-processor that fixes the
problems. As you say, that may reduce the need for an XML parser.

I haven't investigated error recovery with libxml, so someone else
might have better ideas.

Liam

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