Replace the Text of an XML Element Using LibXML and DOM

jmurphy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

Warning XML and Perl newbie. I've created a DOM tree from XML::LibXML::SAX::Builder and the structure is roughly as follows:

<Message>
  <Body>...Base64_Encoded_Text...</Body>
</Message>
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I need to replace the Base64 encode text with its decoded value. So far I've been able to decode the contents of the Body with the following:

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my $dom = $generator->execute("exec $opt_hash{sp} \'$opt_dates{start}\
+', \'$opt_dates{end}\'");
my $root = $dom->getDocumentElement;
my @bodies = $root->getElementsByTagName('Body');

for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@bodies); $i++) {
    print decode_base64($bodies[$i]->getFirstChild->getData); 
}
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However, I'd like to modify the tree directly and not just the list that gets returned from getElementsByName. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Jay

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Re: Replace the Text of an XML Element Using LibXML and DOM by lestrrat (Deacon) on Jul 01, 2002 at 23:09 UTC
How about: `foreach my $node ( $dom->findnodes( '/Message/Body' ) ) { my $decoded = decode_base64($node->textContent()); $node->removeChild( $node->firstChild() ); $node->appendTextNode( $decoded ); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Replace the Text of an XML Element Using LibXML and DOM by jmurphy (Acolyte) on Jul 02, 2002 at 18:40 UTC
Thanks so much for the reply, Hopefully this can help someone else. I ended up implementing as follows: `my $root = $dom->getDocumentElement; my $bodies = $root->getElementsByTagName( "MessageBody" ); foreach my $body ( $bodies->get_nodelist() ) { my $encoded_node = $body->firstChild(); $encoded_node->replaceDataString( $encoded_node->data(), decode_ba +se64( $encoded_node->data() )); }` [download] Again thanks. You got me going on the right path. Take care, Jay	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Replace the Text of an XML Element Using LibXML and DOM by lestrrat (Deacon) on Jul 02, 2002 at 20:28 UTC
I learned something new, too :) ( didn't know about replaceDataString() )	[reply]


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