xmlParse on poorly formatted xml

ggantzer2 wrote: i'm trying to parse xml from a web service. the xml returned does not include the normal "<?xml...>" nor the ending tag. The remainder of the xml is well formed. What is the proper way to handle this?

Does the web service promise you an XML? If yes, examine whether it is your fault that the end tag is missing. If it is not your fault, report the problem to the service's publisher. 

Do you mean the end tag for the <?xml...> beginning?  If so, then know that the is no ending tag for <?xml...>.

If you are getting malformed errors it is because something else in the XML is malformed.

Jason

The initial <?xml?> tag is optional, so there's no need to worry about that bit.  However if the rest of the XML is malformed, what you should be doing is returning to however the XML is being generated and making it wellformed.  You should always try to resolve an issue so that it's correct before resorting to bandaiding something that is not correct.

Still: if that's impossible, and if the only thing wrong is a single missing closing tag... just append the closing tag to the XML string.  But seriously: try to get it fixed at the time the XML is generated, not when you come to be processing it.

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Adam