Clobbered keys in XML::Simple

What is happening here is that 'name' is one of the default key attributes for XML::Simple. (The defaults are 'name', 'key', and 'id'.) By changing this (with the keyattr option), I think you can get the desired results.

Here is a quick script I threw together which should demonstrate the differences. I hope it helps.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Data::Dumper;
use XML::Simple;

my $gXML;
my $gXMLDoc;
my $gXMLString;


$/ = undef;
$gXMLString = <DATA>;
$gXML = XML::Simple->new();

$gXMLDoc = $gXML->XMLin($gXMLString);
print 'Before:',"\n",'-' x 40,"\n",Dumper($gXMLDoc),"\n";

$gXMLDoc = $gXML->XMLin($gXMLString, keyattr => '');
print 'After:',"\n",'-' x 40,"\n",Dumper($gXMLDoc),"\n";


__DATA__
<DataContent>
<head>
<meta name="APU:IndustryCode" content="Banking / finance" />
<meta name="APU:IndustryCode" content="Joint ventures / investment" />
</head>
</DataContent>
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For more information on the options available with XML::Simple (forcearray is another one you will want to make sure you know), check out:

perldoc XML::Simple

Note:

Make sure you look at the data structure dumped with Data::Dumper -- meta is now a two element array.

Update:

The following code will iterate through the meta array:

foreach (0..$#{$gXMLDoc->{head}->{meta}})
{
  print $gXMLDoc->{head}->{meta}[$_]->{content},"\n";
}
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