XML::Twig - getting started

John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

sub process_file ($)
 {
 my $filename= shift;
 my $twig= new XML::Twig();
 print "filename: [$filename]\n";
 $twig->parse ($filename);
#  $twig->print; 
 }
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I note that my filename is correct -- no stray \n's or other oddities. This is right out of the Synopsys of the documentation for Twig 3.00.

So what happens? I get

not well-formed at line 1, column 2, byte 2 at C:/Program Files/Langua
+ges/Perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 168
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Huh? —John

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The Answer by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Nov 04, 2001 at 11:51 UTC
Well, it's a major bug in the documentation. It should be `->parsefile()`, not `->parse()`. Another example I tried had literal XML as the argument to parse(), and that led me to explore this more. If mirod is reading this, also note “...but you can also use a more perlish naming convention, using twig_print_outside_roots instead of twig_print_outside_roots...” —John	[reply] [d/l] [select]