Parser.pm -- not well-formed error

[Rishi Dhupar]

Hi,

General idea of what I am doing: Running a file scan on my hard drive
that is storing the info into an XML file. Then another perl script I
have wrote is parsing this data and making use of it.

Keep getting this error:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1742, column 29, byte 67305 at
C:/Perl/s
ite/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187

The line in the XML file is:
<FileName>3½ Floppy (A).lnk</FileName>

The issue is obviosuly the 1/2 symbol. Is there anyway way to get
around this error? I cannot delete the 1/2 symbol or anything, I need
it exactly the way it is.

Any way to have the parser not validate the XML data or something and
just take it as a literal string?

 

[Rishi Dhupar]

Just figured it out.

I don't know the XML specs too well so I kind of made up the format the
file scan outputted.

Added this line to the top of the document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

And seems to all work.

Thanks

 

[Rishi Dhupar]

Is there any encoding that allows & symbols in XML? Without having to
replace to &amp

 

[Michel Rodriguez]

Is there any encoding that allows & symbols in XML? Without having to
replace to &amp

no:

http://xml.com/axml/target.html#syntax (look at the (T) comment, while
non-normative, Tim Bray should know what he is talking about ;--)