G'day mcoblentz,

It would appear that's poorly documented and read_chunk_of_data() is either pseudocode or a function you're supposed to write yourself.

I haven't used this module previously; however, something like this seems to be the intent: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e '
    use XML::Rules;
    use Data::Dumper;
    my @xml = qw{<some_tag> some content </some_tag>};
    my $parser = XML::Rules::->new(
        rules => [ _default => sub {$_[0] => $_[1]->{_content}} ]
    );
    for (@xml) {
        $parser->parse_chunk($_);
    }
    my $data = $parser->last_chunk();
    print Dumper $data;
'
$VAR1 = {
          'some_tag' => 'somecontent'
        };

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Someone who's actually used the module before may have a better answer.

Update: Minor text change: s/write it yourself/write yourself/

-- Ken

In reply to Re: XML parsing with XML::Rules by kcott
in thread XML parsing with XML::Rules by mcoblentz

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