in reply to Parsing XML::Simple

..or using XML::Twig

i need to add encoding="ISO-8859-1" to the first line of XML data

I always make confusion with XML terminology and traversing, but this quick hack works:

use strict; use warnings; use XML::Twig; my $twig=XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { 'termEntry/langSet'=>sub{print $_[1]->att('xml:lang'), ": ", $_[1]->first_child('termGrp')->te +xt, "\n" } }, ); $twig->parse( \*DATA ); __DATA__ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <DB> <termEntry> <ShortInfo>Ciao</ShortInfo> <langSet xml:lang="Italian"> <termGrp> <term>Ricerca scientifica</term> </termGrp> </langSet> <langSet xml:lang="English"> <termGrp> <term>research</term> </termGrp> </langSet> </termEntry> <termEntry> <ShortInfo></ShortInfo> <langSet xml:lang="Italian"> <termGrp> <term>università</term> </termGrp> </langSet> <langSet xml:lang="English"> <termGrp> <term>university</term> </termGrp> </langSet> </termEntry> </DB>

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