Oh mighty Perl Monks, please assist me through this terribly frustrating (yet likely very simple to solve) roadblock. I'm trying to access data in a very very large XML file to process and selectively load into database. I am able to print out the data I am after but can't seem to assign to a variable that will persist. I need to collect all the fields for the database row in order to format my insert. Thanks in advance for any wisdom you might share with me.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::LibXML::Reader;

my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new(location => "parts.xml")
         or die "cannot read file.xml\n";

while($reader->read) {

## VARIABLE ASSIGNMENT DOES NOT PERSIST
    $price = $reader->readInnerXml if $reader->localName eq 'price';

## THESE PRINT EXPECTED VALUES
    print $reader->readInnerXml if $reader->localName eq 'price';
    print $reader->readInnerXml if $reader->localName eq 'url';
    print $reader->readInnerXml if $reader->localName eq 'imageurl';
    print $reader->readInnerXml if $reader->localName eq 'name';

}

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The XML looks like this....


<product>
<name>5 Spoke Wheel</name>
<description>Reconditioned OEM</description>
<price>123.45</price>
<url>http://www.foo.com</buyurl>
<imageurl>http://www.foo.com/foo.jpg</imageurl>]
</product>

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In reply to Assigning variables and persistence using Lib::LibXML::Reader by CA_Tallguy

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