in reply to Calling nested containers with XML::Simple

You might want to revisist XML::Simple's documentation: forcearray => 1 coerces all nested elements into arrayrefs, turning something like...

$i->{snmp}->{version}

...into the less aesthetic...

$i->{snmp}->[0]->{version}->[0]

# or $i->{snmp}[0]->{version}[0], which 
# reads more legibly to me (YMMV)

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You might find a workaround in some of XML::Simple's other options, 'though.

    --k.


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Re: Re: Calling nested containers with XML::Simple
by c (Hermit) on Jul 05, 2002 at 07:06 UTC
    Thanks! I agree that the second version is not very aesthetic whatsoever. I also found that when the containers are nested, they can be called via

    $i->{snmp}{version}

    i had been trying the syntax you show above with the second "->". i think that was the source of my frustration.

    thanks again, your post helped very much. -c

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      Whenever i use 'forcearray', i tend to loop: 
      for my $snmp (@{$i->{snmp}}) {
   for my $version (@{$snmp->{version}}) {
      print "$version\n";
   }
}

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      Now, consider XML::XPath, which 'drills down' to the nodes in question: 
      use XML::XPath;

my $xp = XML::XPath->new(filename => 'filename');
my $nodeset = $xp->find('global/snmp/version');

print $_->string_value, "\n" for $nodeset->get_nodelist;

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      Much nicer. :)

      jeffa

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