Hi,

I tried originally with 'parse' and several other XML methods. Because I had already read in the XML document and extracted the CDATA material, the "chunk" becomes an incorrectly formed XML document (it does not have a single root element wrapping all the other elements. The CDATA content starts with a paragraph tag, which stops in the middle, then picks up with some table elements). That's where the 'junk' error comes from - Perl is complaining about a poorly formed XML document.

I was a little embarrassed that I thought "read_in_some_data" was a real method - but the conversation has been really helpful - I honestly thought the whole documentation was trying to trick me and just couldn't figure out where my error was (silly me). Jenda had alluded to just picking up the CDATA fragments and re-parsing, which led me down a whole weird dead end. He has the right approach, I just interpreted his comments incorrectly.

This XML stuff is "fussy". I'm hoping to wrap my head around all of this because having scripts like this will make the code overall much easier to maintain. Just find the feed, parse, and go.

I'm just having trouble with the recursive bits of the overall process. The data changes and thus the details have to change.

Thanks to all for pitching in. This has been a useful discussion about feeds, XML, etc.

Matt

In reply to Re^2: XML parsing with XML::Rules by mcoblentz
in thread XML parsing with XML::Rules by mcoblentz

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