hello ateague.
Sometimes I met the case when pretty print doesn't work with XML::Twig. If pretty print is the problem, how about this?

XML::Twig->new(
    twig_handlers => {
        'statement' => sub {
            my($twig,$elt)=@_;
            if( $elt->find_nodes('primary/acct', 0)->trimmed_text() eq
+ '903264' ){
                $twig->flush;
            }else {
                $twig->purge;
            }
        },
        'statement//*' =>sub {},    #skip descendants of statement
        '_default_' => sub {        #just flush
            my($twig,$elt)=@_;
            $twig->flush;
        }
    },
    #twig_print_outside_roots =>1,
    pretty_print => 'indented',
)->parse(*DATA);

__DATA__
same data

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This prints pretty with my XML::Twig 
C:\temp>perl -MXML::Twig -e "print $XML::Twig::VERSION"
3.42

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This example be "potato", becuase it kills the advantage to use twig_root.
good luck.

In reply to Re: XML::Twig's twig_print_outside_roots adds extra blank lines to output by remiah
in thread [SOLVED] XML::Twig's twig_print_outside_roots adds extra blank lines to output by ateague

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