Please see also XML::LibXML::Simple for a handy replacement for XML::Simple:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dump;
use XML::LibXML::Simple qw(XMLin);
$/ = undef;
my $xml = <DATA>;
my $ref = XMLin $xml;
# dd $ref;
foreach my $msg (@{$ref->{'message'}}) {
my $h = substr($msg->{'time'}, 8, 2);
my $n = substr($msg->{'time'}, 10, 2);
my $author = $msg->{'content'} =~ s/^\/me// ? $msg->{'author'} : "
+<$msg->{'author'}>";
print "$h:$n $author: $msg->{'content'}\n";
}
__END__
<CHATTER><INFO site="http://perlmonks.org" sitename="Perl Monks">Rende
+red by the Chatterbox XML Ticker</INFO><message author="OeufMayo" tim
+e="20010228112952">test</message><message author="deprecated" time="2
+0010228113142">pong</message><message author="OeufMayo" time="2001022
+8113153">/me test again; :)</message><message author="OeufMayo" time=
+"20010228113255"><a href="#">please note the use of HTML tags&l
+t;/a></message></CHATTER>
Best regards, Karl
«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»