And you thought I'd let get away without forcing an XML::Twig version upon you?

Of course you need a recent (3.00.18 or above) version of the module in order to get the parseurl method, otherwise you will need to use LWP to get the text first.

#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Twig;
use constant URL => q{http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=chatterbox+xm
+l+ticker};

my $t= XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { message => \&display_message
+ });
$t->parseurl( URL);

sub display_message
  { my( $t, $msg)= @_;
    my $auth = $msg->att( 'author');
    my $cont = $msg->text;
    my $time = $msg->att( 'time');
    my ($h,$m,$s) = $time =~ /^\d{8}(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)$/;
    $cont =~ s/\n//g;
    $cont =~ s/^\/me/$auth/;
    print "$h:$m:$s - [$auth] $cont\n";
  }

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In reply to Re: XML::Simple chatterbox dumper by mirod
in thread XML::Simple chatterbox dumper by jeffa

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