Okay - I have gotten your code to work, and to do what I want. Now this may be a beginners question - but:

How on earth do I get XML::Twig's parse function to use the iterator instead of a filehandle?

my $inputHandle = create_iterator();
$t->parse (<$inputHandle>);

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exits with error message "Not a GLOB reference at ./script.pl line xy.".

And

$t->parse ($inputHandle);

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spits out: "not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 4, byte 4 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/XML/Parser.pm line 187. at ./script.pl line xy."

So how do I typecast the iterator in order to treat it like a file handle?

In reply to Re^4: peek at STDIN, to determine data type and then pass STDIN to a parser by aral
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