Hello folks!

Do you know XML::easytree? It's really good tool, but unfortunately I am a perl newbie and I can't get the content of the $tree out for my other purposes. I am really depressed, for last 4 days I couldn't come up with my own idea and the only example of what I want to do next I found is some kind of broken or what.

See: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
#use strict; 
use XML::Parser; 
use XML::Parser::EasyTree; 
use Data::Dumper;
my $p=new XML::Parser(Style=>'EasyTree'); 
my $tree=$p->parsefile("test.xml"); 
#my $element;
print_easy_tree($tree); 

sub print_easy_tree 
{ 
    my $node = shift; 

    { 
        if ($element->{type} eq 'e') 
        { 
            print "<$element->{name}>"; 
            print_easy_tree($element->{content}); 
            print "</$element->{name}>"; 
        } 
        elsif ($element->{type} eq 't') 
        { 
            print $element->{content}; 
        } 
        else 
        { 
            print "[IGNORED $element->{type}]"; 
        } 
    } 
}

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When I try to run this code, I get error that $element is not initialized. I tried to repair it, but I don't know where and what. Please help poor stupid student monk and end his torture.

In reply to How to get content of an XML::easytree output by Tworec

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