malformed

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The main problem with this is that one of the rules with XML is that if the input data is malformed, your parser catches fire and explodes.

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  1. adjective Abnormally or faultily formed.

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  • Some interesting tidbits: Reed provided functionality not only to discard TCP packets that were incomplete or malformed, but to do so silently (your host returns no ICMP error). —  Maximum Security -- Ch 27 -- Firewalls
  • Her sword arm was scarred and slightly malformed, almost clublike. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • “Now the other one It feels like some kind of malformed dick is inside me.” Joanie giggled when the second ball slid in as easily as the first. —  The First Time
  • He was banished to the land like a malformed child hidden from sight. —  VANCE MOORE
  • So many of his subjects were born malformed, and nearly all of them, so far, turned malevolent to some degree as they matured relatively quickly in fast-time environments. —  Loren L
 

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/mælˈfɔrmd/
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