It's much easier to switch from XML::Simple to XML::Rules than to XML::LibXML. Basically all you need is to give XML::Rules::inferRulesFromExample a few example XMLs (make sure all tags that may be repeated actually are repeated at least in one xml and make sure tags that only have optional attributes do have a attribute at least once) or use XML::Rules::inferRulesFromDTD to produce a set of transformation rules and you end up with a data structure very similar to the one produced by XML::Simple, with the only important difference being its consistency.

You can then tweak the rules to skip parts you are not interested in, (pre)process branches of the XML, etc.

Jenda
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In reply to Re^2: XML Parsing Problems by Jenda
in thread XML Parsing Problems by taralon

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