[Biodevelopers] (#=#) XML for huge DB? - XML::Parser....

[Dan Bolser]

I am now deeply frustrated. 

My XML::Parser is working almost perfectly, apart from
dumping the occasional Q instead of the correct 
Hit_accession, and then somtimes 'loosing' the last
digit of the Hsp_num...

I only notice these when they violate my primary
keys, so I don't know how many 'silent' mutations
are being introduced.  

If I put some new lines in the file, after the <!DOCYTPE,
and before <BlastOutput, other characters go missing,
but the previous ones are returned. There is a specific
number of lines which gives no detected mutations, 

but puting the file back the way it was makes the original
problem come right back - in exactly the same predetermined
way....

Who should I kill?

Please don't sugest using another parser...

Which Bioperl should I use?

I found the great looking 

BLAST::Report

http://ccgb.umn.edu/~crow/projects/xmlblast/

uses dom, which is a shame. 

Thanks anyone who can return my missing characters,
and my sanity....

Why would XML::Parser develope this problem is such
a derministic random way?

?Thanks again, Dan.