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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:14:23+00:00

I’m write a Air application that consumes a beta webservice API. Sometimes this APIreturns

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I’m write a Air application that consumes a beta webservice API. Sometimes this APIreturns me a malformed XML node and actionscript will raise an error when I try creating the XML object out of it.

What I’ve been doing is just try/catching the result and ignore the whole response if the XML is bad, but I could just ignore the malformed node.

For example:

<result>   <Song>     <location>http://www.anyurl.com/audio/loftparty092108_pt4.mp3</location>     <title>Phonte party @ The Loft, 9/21/08 (pt. 4)</title>     <artist>Statik, Jahsonic &amp; Stylus        <artist>Statik, Jahsonic &amp; Stylusre />   </Song> </result>

See that tag? If I fould something like that, I’d like to skip the whole Song and get the next one.

Is there any way I could accomplish this?

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    1. Write to the webservice provider. Tell them about the malformed XML. They might just fix it.
    2. When a malformed XML is passed back Flex’s default XML decoder is at a loss and throws.
    3. If you want to try processing roll your own decoder. See the xmlDecode member of HTTPService.
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