in reply to XML replacenode

As posted your script returns:

Global symbol "$node_c" requires explicit package name (did you forget
+ to declare "my $node_c"?) at derp.pl line 13.
Execution of derp.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Where possible please copy/paste rather than retype code. I've never used XML::LibXML (at least not that I can remember at this time of day), but believe your example should look something like this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::LibXML;

print "Please specify node c content\n";
my $node_c = <STDIN>;
chomp $node_c;

my $template = "xx.xml";
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->parse_file($template);
my($object0) = $doc->findnodes("/header/id/c/text()");
$object0->setData( $node_c );
print $doc;

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Output:


Please specify node c content
derp
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a/>
      <b/>
      <c>derp</c>
   </id>
</header>

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Update: Correct use of XML::LibXML here

Or using Mojo::DOM:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Mojo::DOM;

my $xml = '<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a></a>
      <b></b>
      <c>NA</c>
   </id>
</header>';

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new->xml(1)->parse( $xml );

say 'Current value of c: ' . $dom->at('id > c')->text;
say 'Please specify node c content: ';
chomp( my $node_c = <STDIN> );
$dom->at('id > c')->content( $node_c );
say $dom->content;

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Output:

Current value of c: NA
Please specify node c content: 
derp
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a />
      <b />
      <c>derp</c>
   </id>
</header>

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Re^2: XML replacenode
by michael99 (Acolyte) on Apr 16, 2020 at 01:04 UTC

    Hi, I have not try on your code but from the output you posted, it seems remove and from the original file. Is there anyway to retain empty node a and b?

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      That is valid XML for a node with no content or attributes.

      #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Mojo::DOM;

my $xml = '<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a></a>
      <b></b>
      <c>NA</c>
   </id>
</header>';

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new->xml(1)->parse( $xml );

say 'Current value of c: ' . $dom->at('id > c')->text;
say 'Please specify node c content: ';
chomp( my $node_c = <STDIN> );
$dom->at('id > c')->content( $node_c );
say $dom->content;
say 'add content to nodes a & b';
$dom->at('id > b')->content( 'Foo' );
$dom->at('id > a')->content( 'Bar' );
say $dom->content;

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      Output:

      Current value of c: NA
Please specify node c content: 
derp
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a />
      <b />
      <c>derp</c>
   </id>
</header>
add content to nodes a & b
<header>
   <id x_id="1">
      <a>Bar</a>
      <b>Foo</b>
      <c>derp</c>
   </id>
</header>

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