Re^3: how to remove an empty line from a xml file??

Hi,

understood your point! thanks but I am unable to implement it in my script. could you please provide me with a prototype or an example script for my problem ???

Can I see what you tried?

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Re^4: how to remove an empty line from a xml file?? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:29 UTC
hey was doing a silly mistake. tried the above code . it works! thanks for the help use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use XML::DOM; my $parser=new XML::DOM::Parser; my $doc=$parser->parsefile('C:\perl\perl_tests\xmlin2.xml') or die$!; my $root=$doc->getDocumentElement(); my @address=$root->getElementsByTagName("address"); foreach my $address(@address) { if($address->getAttribute("name") eq "Joey") { if(my $item=$address->getElementsByTagName("item")->item(0)) { if(my $data=$item->getElementsByTagName("data")->item(0)) { $item->removeChild($data); my @list=$item->getChildNodes; foreach my $list(@list) { if($list->getNodeType==TEXT_NODE) { $item->removeChild($list); } } } } } } $doc->setXMLDecl($doc->createXMLDecl('1.0','UTF-8')); $doc->printToFile("C:/perl/perl_tests/xmlin2.xml"); $doc->dispose; [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: how to remove an empty line from a xml file??
by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Oct 01, 2016 at 09:29 UTC

hey was doing a silly mistake. tried the above code . it works! thanks for the help

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::DOM;

my $parser=new XML::DOM::Parser;

my $doc=$parser->parsefile('C:\perl\perl_tests\xmlin2.xml') or die$!;
my $root=$doc->getDocumentElement();

my @address=$root->getElementsByTagName("address");
foreach my $address(@address)
{
    if($address->getAttribute("name") eq "Joey")
    {
        if(my $item=$address->getElementsByTagName("item")->item(0))
        {
            if(my $data=$item->getElementsByTagName("data")->item(0))
            {
            $item->removeChild($data);
            my @list=$item->getChildNodes;        
                foreach my $list(@list)
                {
                    if($list->getNodeType==TEXT_NODE)
                    {
                    $item->removeChild($list);
                    }
                }                    
            }
        }
    }
}    
$doc->setXMLDecl($doc->createXMLDecl('1.0','UTF-8'));
$doc->printToFile("C:/perl/perl_tests/xmlin2.xml");
$doc->dispose;
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