I just need to know an incorrect record was found to clean up the partially processed file. Going along with the W3C specifications, it would be preferable to eliminate all data from the file instead of accept records read before encountering the error.
Currently I don't see any feedback from SAS except the ERROR: log message to indicate that a record level error occurred. I dumped dictionary.macros to print to see if any variable indicated the error. None did.
Reading XML files as a text file to count the number of record beginning tags is an option but would badly slow down the process.
Message was edited by: JMarkW
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