With the other problems solved, let's look at the rules.

1. The _default => sub {$_[0] => $_[1]->{_content}}, is better written as _default => 'content',. There are several builtin rules so if that you need to do with a tag matches one of them, it's better to use the builtin instead of a custom rule.

2. If the rule for a tag matches the _default rule, you don't need the tag-specific rule.

3. The rule for the <updated> tag should be updated => sub {print "$_[1]->{_content}\n";},. You want to print the contents of the tag, not the value of its (nonexistent) attribute named "updated".

4. Once you need to work with more of the data you'll probably replace the rule for <updated> with the builtin rule "content" and specify a custom rule for the <entry> tag. In that rule all the contents of the child tags will be available in the $_[1] hashref as $_[1]->{childtagname}.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re: One more parsing ATOM question by Jenda
in thread One more parsing ATOM question by mcoblentz

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