in reply to Getting start and end xml tags

Have you looked at XML::LibXML::SAX or XML::Parser or XML::Twig? All can give you the start, "middle" and end of an XML tag.

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Re^2: Getting start and end xml tags
by corfuitl (Sexton) on May 28, 2020 at 13:00 UTC

    Hi

    Thank you for your time. I don't have experience on these modules, so this is why I haven't used in my code :(

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      It sounds as if now is a good time to familiarize yourself with one of these modules.

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      When I inevitably hit the omg I gotta parse some XML* stage, I found it easier to understand an event-based parser, but you may not. It was a long time ago, but I think the module I found easiest to work with and understand was XML::Simple (oh but don't use that either!) (SAX (wikipedia) based parsing), which is event-based (found a start tag!, etc), but I can't really remember since it's been a very long time (circa 2004**); I think the book I bought at the time was, Perl and XML.

      * I am a Perl programming, Jeb! Not a Java monkey!

      ** Yes, everyone hits this stage as they're trucking along. It's a good sign. But please listen to those wiser than you (not me, I mean the others telling you to not parse XML with regexes)

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