[Expat-discuss] junk after document element at line 2053

[Michel Rodriguez]

Hi,

Coming late in the discussion...

Is there any chance you could use the Stream_Delimiter option when you
create the XML::Parser?

>From the docs:

  · Stream_Delimiter
    This is an Expat option. It takes a string value. When this
    string is found alone on a line while parsing from a stream,
    then the parse is ended as if it saw an end of file. The
    intended use is with a stream of xml documents in a MIME multi-
    part format. The string should not contain a trailing newline.

This means you would have to insert the delimiter in the file, but this 
could be handled by piping the initial file through a simple Perl script 
that would substitute the prolog by the delimiter + prolog, as in 
(untested):

my $MARK= "<>";  
open( XML_IN, "perl -p -e's{(<?xml )}{$MARK\n\$1}' | "
XML::Parser->new( Stream_Delimiter => $MARK)->parse( \*XML_IN);

Of course this has all the usual disadvantages of non-XML solutions: you 
assume that both $MARK and '<?xml ' will not be found in the XML 
(this is of course dangerous mostly if you are dealing with XML that uses 
CDATA section to embed XML, which hapeens in articles about XML for 
example).

Does this help?

--
Michel Rodriguez
Perl &amp; XML
http://www.xmltwig.com