use strict;
use DBI;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'DBI:mysql:emailb:127.0.0.1', 'user', 'pass',
                                { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 1 } );

die "db connect failed $dbh" unless (ref $dbh eq 'DBI::db');

my $xdir = '/var/tmp/xmlfeed/';

opendir( DIRH, $xdir) or die "cant open $xdir $!";
my @files = grep { /xml$/ } readdir DIRH;
closedir DIRH;
print "Total files : ", scalar @files, "\n";

my $inc = 0;

FILES : for (@files) {

    my $xmlfile = $xdir . $_;

    $inc++;
    print "Processing file number : $inc : $xmlfile \n";

    my $struct;
    my $parser = new XML::Simple( forcearray => 1 );

    eval {
        $struct = $parser->XMLin( $xmlfile );
    };

    if ($@) { print "XML file : $xmlfile invalid ", $@; next; };
    undef $@;

    my $sth = $dbh->prepare(' insert into category_name values ( ?, ? )' );

    for ( @{ $struct->{'Story'} } ) {

        my $hashref = $_;

        eval {
            $sth->execute( @{ $hashref->{'cat_id'} } );
            $sth->finish;
        };

        if ($@) {
            print "category name insert failed : $@ : skipping \n", Dumper ($hashref ), "\n------------\n";
            next;
        }

        undef $@;
    }
    $struct = undef;
}

$dbh->disconnect;