Parsing and missparsing XML -- Slurp too

Slurp also seems to be misparsing lines like this xml line from http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/thredds.xml

<catalogRef xlink:title="DASILVA" xlink:href=""http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.DASILVA/thredds.xml"/">http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.DASILVA/thredds.xml"/>

The robot is hitting  urls like

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.DASILVA/thredds.xml"/
 

which I am presuming to mean that it does not understand the   '/>' notation to end the tag.

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