Yes and now. XMl will prevent you from putting multiple identical records in a document (each line must be the same format). But text doesn't and angle brackets are just text. Delimiters would be necessary as well.
For what I think you want to do (parse the XML, do intelligent stuff), it wiil be easier to change the way your application logs (use Windows Event Logs and event parameters) than it will be to develop a custom monitor (probe based script monitor that parses
the xml, AND, keeps track of where it left off each time it scans the file so you don't get duplicates over and over).
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