Re^2: XML::LibXML - How to extract an element including the elements within?

Thanks poj,

This works great for me, and I also realized that I can differentiate the type of node that I get (plain text vs. element):

my ($node) = $dom->findnodes('/doc/text');
my @children = $node->childNodes;
foreach my $child (@children) {
    my $type = ref($child);
    # $type contains the type of the node, ex: "XML::LibXML::Element"
}
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From there, I can have a plain text string (no tags) and a separate list of all the elements embedded.

Have a great day!

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Re^3: XML::LibXML - How to extract an element including the elements within? by haukex (Archbishop) on May 10, 2019 at 19:55 UTC
`my $type = ref($child);` This is a very brittle way of doing it - it's possible that `XML::LibXML::Element` could be subclassed, and this check would fail, which is why I would recommend against it. It's possible to do `$child->isa('XML::LibXML::Element')`, but XML::LibXML provides an API to check the node type: `$child->nodeType == XML_ELEMENT_NODE` (admittedly not a very Perlish way of doing it, but it's based on the `libxml2` API).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: XML::LibXML - How to extract an element including the elements within? by TravelAddict (Acolyte) on May 13, 2019 at 17:33 UTC
Hi! Thanks again for helping me writing a more robust script! Very good advises, very good learning... :-) Have a great one! TA	[reply]