XML errors after looping through many files

I have been kicking this from different directions and have reached a sticking point. The part of the code that I think matters is at the end of the message. I am looping through about two hundred plus xml files. After about 40 of them I get different XML errors spit out at me depending on what happens to be the last tag processed. All XML files have been validated and are of identical format. It seemed that it might be a time issue (takes a while) so i increased the timeout and it still occurs well within this. Maybe memory, no, that wasn't it either, increased it to no effect. At this point I would be happy if I could just intercept the error and continue the process. I don't believe it would be succesful if I could do it which I can't find a way to in the XML functions anyway. It seems to be a resource issue but none that I am familiar with. If anyone has any clues they would be much appreciated. while($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { // declare the character set - iso-8859-1 is the default $type = 'iso-8859-1'; // create our parser $xml_parser = xml_parser_create($type); // set some parser options xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, 1); xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'iso-8859-1'); // this tells PHP what functions to call when it finds an element // these funcitons also handle the element's attributes xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, 'startElement','endElement'); // this tells PHP what function to use on the character data xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, 'characterData'); // assign the url to a var $xml_file = $myrow["file_source"]; echo "current file processing ==> ". $xml_file."<BR>\n"; // open the file if (!($fp = fopen($xml_file, "r"))) { die(sprintf("Could not open %s for parsing!<BR>\n", $xml_file)); } // loop through the file and parse while ($data = fread($fp, 1000000)) { if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) { die(sprintf( "XML error: %s at line %d\n\n", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser))); } xml_parser_free($xml_parser); } } -- Lewis Bergman Texas Communications 4309 Maple St. Abilene, TX 79602 915-695-6962