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in thread Application Deployment With Perl

Is it possible, for example, to do something like this: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Config>
   <LOCAL_PATH>d:\pb8\</LOCAL_PATH>
   <ZIP_PATH>p:\</ZIP_PATH>
   <SYSTEMS>
     <Assessor>1.5.499</Assessor>
     <Treasurer>1.5.200</Treasurer>
   </SYSTEMS>
</Config>

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If I'm thinking of it right, I could see that I have a list of systems, and if I delve into the systems I could find various properties of them, such as version, etc.?

Thanks for the info :) Very informative :)
MrCromeDome

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Re: Re: Re: Application Deployment With Perl
by vek (Prior) on Apr 03, 2003 at 21:29 UTC
    Yep it's entirely possible to do what you suggest. Here's the data structure that XML::Simple would create (results dumped via Data::Dumper): 
    $VAR1 = {
          'ZIP_PATH' => 'p:\\',
          'LOCAL_PATH' => 'd:\\pb8\\',
          'SYSTEMS' => {
                         'Treasurer' => '1.5.200',
                         'Assessor' => '1.5.499'
                       }
        };

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    And then: 
    my $config = read_ini("AppDeployment.xml");
my $assessor_version = $config->{SYSTEMS}->{Assessor};

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