Re^3: copy XML elements from one file to another

how I can view my output file? I don't see any generated output files

You can print directly to a file using the toFile() method. Add the following lines to the example given above:

$new->addChild($features);
my $filename = 'new.xml';
my $ok = $new->toFile($filename,2);
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I assume "parser" in this case will be parsing the source file (where im getting my input from) right?

Yes, you would set up the parser like this, probably in a loop to go through each file:

my $file = 'file-1.xml';
my $parser = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => $file);
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Re^4: copy XML elements from one file to another by Anonymous Monk on Nov 25, 2013 at 23:06 UTC
Thanks again for the help but unfortunately I only got the following in my output file when using $new->toFile('fileName') <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> I have tried this before reading your reply. But I got the same result. printing my results did help a bit just for debugging purposes. Also tried piping my print statements to a file but the formatting was not good and the text was from bottom to top I just need to get this step done by seeing a nice formatted output so I can start playing around with the code and get what I want. Thanks again	[reply]
Re^5: copy XML elements from one file to another by tangent (Parson) on Nov 25, 2013 at 23:46 UTC
I only got the following in my output file... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Did you include the line `$new->addChild($features);` ? a nice formatted output Did you include the format argument 2 in `$new->toFile($filename,2)` ? You can also `print $new->toString(2)` when debugging.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: copy XML elements from one file to another by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2013 at 05:11 UTC
I did actually include that line. You mean the same line you mentioned in your code in your first response right ? I used your code exactly with tweaking few things like file names. The print is showing that its working overall but file output is unfortunately not btw when I used your suggestion `my $ok = $new->toFile($file-name,2)` I got I/O invalid argument. I managed to get it work but as I said still doesn't show anything other than what I mentioned. again thanks for your help	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: copy XML elements from one file to another by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 26, 2013 at 13:23 UTC
Note that `$file-name` is not a valid variable name in Perl. I recommend that you start using the strict pragma in your program, which will catch such mistakes.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: copy XML elements from one file to another by tangent (Parson) on Nov 26, 2013 at 13:20 UTC
Please show the code that you have now, it will be easier to debug if we can see it.	[reply]