"I have been 'asked' not to download the XML module on my workstation"

I'd be asking about the reasoning behind this nonsense.

Regarding your printf warnings, it appears as though the code you provide is not the same code generating the warnings (given one of the warnings states an actual format, where your code does not). printf requires a string format template, followed by a list of items to inject into the string. Here's an example:

printf "Hello %s, your number is %d\n", $name, $num;

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See this for the list of valid formats.

In your case, you don't need printf, as your variables interpolate just fine with print. Besides, as choroba says, sending user data into printf without any validation checks can be problematic.

In reply to Re: XML parsing by stevieb
in thread XML parsing by catfish1116

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