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I'm OK with making small on-the-fly "edits" to the input (such as
removing the initial comment, or removing all comments), but trying
to make my code discern the overall structure (such as picking out
the boundaries between the documents) is starting to step over into
actually parsing it, which defeats the purpose of using LibXML2. If the TextReader didn't insist upon reading beyond the root end-tag, that would enable me to solve my problem, I think. (I don't understand why it does that.) In the absence of any other options, I'm going to experiment with the SAX interface and see if that will allow me to stop the parse at the right spot. Anyway, thanks for your replies, Liam. Webb On 9/10/19 12:19 AM, Liam R E Quin
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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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