Re: grabbing XML in a script

Look at XML::Simple, which slurps incoming XML into a hash.

  use XML::Simple;

  my $data = "";
  { local $/; $data = <STDIN>; }
  my $ref = XMLin($data);
  print $ref->{xml-key};
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Re: Re: grabbing XML in a script by mirod (Canon) on Oct 16, 2003 at 08:46 UTC
You can't really advise using XML::Simple without knowing what kind of XML is being exchanged: if it contains mixed content then XML::Simple will not be very useful. Don't get me wrong, I love XML::Simple when appropriate, but it just should not be recommended blindly. You can try this at home to see wht I mean BTW: `perl -MXML::Simple -MYAML -e'print Dump XMLin "<doc>\ text with <b>mixed content</b>:\ you see that <tt>XML::Simple</tt>\ kinda <i>messes it-up</i>.</doc>"'` [download] Other recommended solutions include XML::LibXML (if you can install it), XML::TreeBuilder, one of the XML::SAX modules, or XML::Twig (of course!)...	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: grabbing XML in a script
by mirod (Canon) on Oct 16, 2003 at 08:46 UTC

You can't really advise using XML::Simple without knowing what kind of XML is being exchanged: if it contains mixed content then XML::Simple will not be very useful. Don't get me wrong, I love XML::Simple when appropriate, but it just should not be recommended blindly.

You can try this at home to see wht I mean BTW:

perl -MXML::Simple -MYAML -e'print Dump XMLin "<doc>\
text with <b>mixed content</b>:\
you see that <tt>XML::Simple</tt>\
kinda <i>messes it-up</i>.</doc>"'
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Other recommended solutions include XML::LibXML (if you can install it), XML::TreeBuilder, one of the XML::SAX modules, or XML::Twig (of course!)...

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