Re^3: parsing XML fragments (xml log files) with... a regex

[ikegami]

my $data=   '(?: [^<>&]+ | &\#?\w+; )+';

should be

my $data=   '(?: [^<&]+ | &\#?\w+; )+';

XML allows for unescaped ">"

[tye]

Yeah, XML got that wrong. I've never seen real XML that takes advantage of that and I always write my parsers to reject it, so I'll know if it ever happens. So far, my tiny universe of implementers of XML generators are smarter than the standard's authors on this point. :)