No: I'm afraid that if your XML isn't well-formed, there's no way you can
use XSLT to process it.

A lot of the motivation behind XML was to get away from the "tag soup"
mentality of HTML, where consumers of HTML were expected to plough on
regardless of what rubbish they found in their input.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 January 2006 15:33
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  supress errors?
> 
> For my application, people have to upload an XML file (their 
> iTunes Music
> Library). After it uploads, I run a transformation on it in PHP5. Many
> transformations are not working and showing errors because of weird
> characters in the source XML. The source and result XML are 
> set to UTF-8.
> Is there a way to skip over a troubled node? I can't imagine that XLST
> doesn't have a way to deal with this.
> 
> thanks,
> Dan