Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at parsing XML when the XML has errors.

To show the problem and solution, I downloaded an RSS feed, inserted some illegal characters, and saved the file. Then I used this code:

"Standard Parser"
content := 'badRss.xml' asFilename contentsOfEntireFile.
parser := XML.XMLParser new.
parser validate: false.
parser parse: content readStream.

"Tolerant Parser, loaded from public store"
parser := TolerantXML.TolerantParser new.
parser validate: false.
parser parse: content readStream

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