Hi, I've been playing with the new Bing API, for web results, which returns XML in the following format (apologies for the length, but it won't make sense otherwise): 
<feed>
<title type="text">xbox</title>
<subtitle type="text">Bing Web Search</subtitle>
<id>https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Q
+uery='xbox'&Market='en-GB'&$top=3</id>
<rights type="text"/>
<updated>2013-03-13T19:01:31Z</updated>
<link rel="next" href="https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing
+/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Query='xbox'&Market='en-GB'&$skip=3&$top=3"/>
<entry>
<id>https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Q
+uery='xbox'&Market='en-GB'&$skip=0&$top=1</id>
<title type="text">WebResult</title>
<updated>2013-03-13T19:01:31Z</updated>
<content type="application/xml">
    <m:properties>
    <d:ID m:type="Edm.Guid">13bfd262-8460-4487-827f-465643cb7</d:ID>
    <d:Title m:type="Edm.String">Xbox 360 - Xbox.com</d:Title>
    <d:Description m:type="Edm.String">Your ultimate Xbox 360 ....</d:
+Description>
    <d:DisplayUrl m:type="Edm.String">www.xbox.com</d:DisplayUrl>
    <d:Url m:type="Edm.String">http://www.xbox.com/</d:Url>
    </m:properties>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<id>https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Q
+uery='xbox'&Market='en-GB'&$skip=1&$top=1</id>
<title type="text">WebResult</title>
<updated>2013-03-13T19:01:31Z</updated>
<content type="application/xml">
    <m:properties>
    <d:ID m:type="Edm.Guid">daf94bdf-e59b-4e17-8c06-62a8b4ff8</d:ID>
    <d:Title m:type="Edm.String">Xbox UK Home</d:Title>
    <d:Description m:type="Edm.String">For UK Xbox gamers ...</d:Descr
+iption>
    <d:DisplayUrl m:type="Edm.String">www.xbox.com/GB</d:DisplayUrl>
    <d:Url m:type="Edm.String">http://www.xbox.com/GB</d:Url>
    </m:properties>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
... etc, etc, etc .....
</entry>
</feed>

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So, I'm trying to get the values of d:Title, d:Description, and d:Url, but seem to be having problems. I'm using XML::Simple, which I'm slightly more familiar with than anything else - but far from proficient.

So, I've got the data, like this:

$data   =$xml->XMLin($bingdata,ForceArray=>1);

... and then try to process each <entry>, as such:

foreach my $record (@{$data->{'feed:entry'}->[0]->{'content:m:properties'}})

... but it just skips the loop, because presumably I don't have the loop set up correctly.

I was hoping I could just loop through and do something like:

my $title=$record->{'d:Title'}->[0];, etc.

Very confused ... Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

In reply to Parsing XML by DanielSpaniel

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