hello monks,

I'm running on the shaggy way of XML processing and I choose my tool: XML::Twig (thanks mirod!).

I'm experiencing a problem with the parsefile_inplace method described here. I have a simple program: 
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use XML::Twig;
my $file = 'orders.xml' ;
my $ext = '.'.time;

my $twig = XML::Twig->new(pretty_print => 'indented');
#$twig->parsefile( $file) or die "could not parse!";
$twig->parsefile_inplace ( $file, $ext) ;

$twig->print();

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..and a simple XML file: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <Order>
 <Date>2003/07/04</Date>
 <CustomerId>123</CustomerId>
 <CustomerName>Acme Alpha</CustomerName>

   <Item>
 <ItemId> 987</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Coupler</ItemName>
 <Quantity>5</Quantity>
 </Item>

<Item>
 <ItemId>654</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Connector</ItemName>
 <Quantity unit="12">3</Quantity>
 </Item>

<Item>  
 <ItemId>579</ItemId>
 <ItemName>Clasp</ItemName>
 <Quantity>1</Quantity>
 </Item>

</Order>

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but when i run this the XML is printed to STDOUT (it is not selected the FH to the output file?) and i find myself with an empty orders.xml file and a correct sized orders.xml.1374219815 file.

I use strawberry Perl 5.16 on win7 64bit and I can safely run perl -e "use File::Temp"

Many thanks for the attention

L*
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In reply to XML::Twig parsefile_inplace misunderstanding by Discipulus

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