You are not giving us nearly enough information to help you here. What kind of text? what kind of XML? Have a look at CPAN: CGI::XML, CGI::XMLForm or XML::Generator::CGI might help you (I have used neither of them), but who knows?
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XML is eXtensible Markup Language. It is text. It's not some magical thing. It's not a programming language like Perl, Java, or C++. It's just like HTML - a way of embedding context and structure in with text.
You can add XML to text to add structure, just like you would do so with HTML. XML isn't a format, not like PDF or DOC or TXT or such.
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It's not some magical thing. It's not a programming language like Perl, Java, or
C++...
Hmm, obviously Perl poetry is plain text converted
to Perl but how would I convert plain text to Java or C++?
:-)
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Uh ... no. Perl poetry is not plain text converted to Perl. It's Perl given a context humans can interpret other than as a computer program. You can write Java poetry and C++ poetry. I'm not sure it would be as pretty, but it's do-able. (Heck, you can write ASM poetry, but I have no idea who would find that interesting. Still, people like piano-playing involving 2x4's ... it takes all types, I guess.)
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Generically speaking, I would recommend XML::Writer. It cleans your stuff up for you as you write it out to the file. But this is a limited suggestion as the previous posters have pointed out. | [reply] |