Hello Monks

Again a problem with XML::Simple. I have a quite simple data structure

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<DB>
        <termEntry>
            <ShortInfo>Ciao</ShortInfo>
            <langSet xml:lang="Italian">
                <termGrp>
                    <term>Ricerca scientifica</term>
                </termGrp>
            </langSet>
            <langSet xml:lang="English">
                <termGrp>
                <term>research</term>
                </termGrp>
            </langSet>
        </termEntry>
        <termEntry>
            <ShortInfo></ShortInfo>
            <langSet xml:lang="Italian">
                <termGrp>
                <term>università</term>
                </termGrp>
            </langSet>
            <langSet xml:lang="English">
                <termGrp>
                <term>university</term>
                </termGrp>
            </langSet>
        </termEntry>
</DB>

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For each <termEntry>I need to read the values in <term> and the corrisponding attribute saved in <langSet> for further processing, i.e.

Italian: Ricerca scientifica
English: research

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I am failing... This is what I have so far. Any help would be appreciated

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = XML::Simple->new(SuppressEmpty => q());
my $data = $xml->XMLin('myxml.xml');

for my $entry ( @{ $data->{termEntry} } ) {
    print Dumper( $entry );
    print my $Term = $entry->{langSet}->{termGrp}->{term};
}

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I have no idea how to read the attribute, and I have even problems with the basic variable $Term which seems to me straightforward to read with the above code. Ok: I am very new to XML parsing and this is for me just a 1 time task. But I have already lost 1 full day...

In reply to Parsing XML::Simple by Anonymous Monk

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