John Smith #### http://johnsmith.com #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::LibXML; # The XML Document my $DOC = XML::LibXML->createDocument( "1.0", "UTF-8" ); # Set the root my $root = $DOC->createElement('owner'); $DOC->setDocumentElement($root); sub createOwner { if(rand() < 0.5){ return "John Smith"; }else{ my $ret = XML::LibXML::Element->new('href'); $ret->appendTextNode('http://johnsmith.com'); return $ret; } } my $owner = &createOwner(); if(ref($owner) eq 'XML::LibXML::Element'){ $root->appendChild($owner); }else{ $root->appendTextNode($owner); } print $DOC."\n"; #### John Smith #### http://johnsmith.com #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::LibXML; # The XML Document my $DOC = XML::LibXML->createDocument( "1.0", "UTF-8" ); # Set the root my $root = $DOC->createElement('owner'); $DOC->setDocumentElement($root); sub createOwner { if(rand() < 0.5){ return "John Smith"; }else{ my $ret = XML::LibXML::Element->new('href'); $ret->appendTextNode('http://johnsmith.com'); return $ret; } } my $owner = &createOwner(); $root->appendChild($owner); print $DOC."\n";