I am using XML::Writer since it doesn't have that many dependencies and I'm going to use fatpack to roll what I need into the script itself. Anyways, I am currently creating an XML file and the format is nice but I want to also display it to STDOUT. Here is how I declare my XML::Writer 
my $output = IO::File->new(">$xmlFileName");

my $writer = new XML::Writer(OUTPUT => $output,DATA_MODE => 1, DATA_IN
+DENT => 2 );

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Now, if I remove the  OUTPUT => $output it prints everything to the console, formatted and nice -- which is what I want. As soon as I set the output, I lose that functionality. I can't see how I can get it back to the console. I've been googling for a while now but I would appreciate some help from this community, which has been AMAZING so far. Thanks :)

In reply to Using XML::Writer, how can I output to a file AND to the console? by envinyater

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