text file with xml

[Atsuo_Yoshinari]

Hi people,

I'm trying to read in an xml file which contains multiple xml file entries. Is there anyway of reading a single file which contains multiple xml files? e.g. 50 xml files written in one xml file. when i read it, it only recognises the first lot but the rest of it is thought of as junk. i can see why coz nothing should exist after one xml file entry but i need to get around
it. any good ideas?

thanks!!

toshesh

[Weedpacket]

Making sure the file complies with the XML spec can help...

If you haven't got things like <?xml to deal with all through the file it's easy: use a new (otherwise unused) tag to wrap everything thing up to make one XML document and read that.

<thingy>
...
</thingy>
<thingy>
...
</thingy>
<thingy>
...
</thingy>

becomes

<bunchofthingies>
<thingy>
...
</thingy>
<thingy>
...
</thingy>
<thingy>
...
</thingy>
</bunchofthingies>

If there are <?xml ... bits all through, you can read the file in as a single string, break it on those bits, and read each bit separately.

[Atsuo_Yoshinari]

Thank you for your reply.

yes it does contain lots of <?xml> tags but it works now!!!