Re: [xml] Help on finding out badly formed Xml documents.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:52:22AM +0000, SiM wrote:
> Hi All,
>             Is there a way to find whether the XML Document being parsed is well formed or not, So that Processing the document can be stopped (or need not be started at all ).
>  
> Foe Eg: something like this, <start> <first> </start>
>  
> is there a single API , which would tell me about this, before parsing really starts ?  or is it possible only when the document  parsing has begun ?

  Detecting well formedness is only the result of parsing.
There is no shortcut. What are you trying to do ?

Daniel

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