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Good point!

I'd give you the double plus if I wasn't 3 floors underneath the dungeon level!

I did ask if there was a 1-to-1 line concurrency, so you can infer from that that I was aware that the solution would not work if there was any mismatch in the line concurrency. Also adding .*? inside the left tag would catch any randomly added attributes, but yes, I can see why regex's are not the way to go if your less than 100% sure about the quality and consistency of the input data.

So that leaves me wondering just exactly how XML::libXML recognises the structure of a tag, what is the black magic therein? And also, how does libXML work on the file without loading it all into memory (the guy said they were extremely large.)

In reply to Re^16: Processing Two XML Files in Parallel by Logicus
in thread Processing Two XML Files in Parallel by tedv

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