Re: [xml] Tool to convert malformed XML into valid XML

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba gmail com>]

Dear Subrata Dasgupta,

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Subrata Dasgupta  wrote:
> Respected Sir,
>
> While working in a project I have faced huge problems with malformed XML files. Most of the times few 
> opening or closing tags are missing in those files and some times though XML is not malformed but it is not 
> matching with the DTD. It is very very hard to fix this by hand because XMLs are very big more than 30 MB 
> to 2 GB.
>
> So I am looking for a open source tool which can detect and fix the malformed xml with the help of a DTD or 
> XSD automatically(at least where there is no ambiguity). But till now I am unable to find such a tool. But 
> after googling it seems to me that we can write such tool using GNU libxml open source library.

As far as I know, this is in principle not possible. XML parsers
(including libxml2) are required to treat malformed XML as a fatal
error; which means that you won't get any useful parsing result except
an error code.

Csaba
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