Hi, I have a quick question: I wanted to write a basic method that would take one argument and will write any basic XML element like: 

<year>1999</year>

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This is assuming that any tag has the value for that element in a variable by the same name. I mean, $year = "1999"; is already set. I can't seam to get the value for the tag I'm trying to write. Here's my method but what do I use to access $year (for this example). 
sub writeBasicTag {
    my $tag = $_[0];
    $writer->startTag($tag);
    $writer->characters(XXX); 
    $writer->endTag($tag);
}

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Am I missing something obvious... is it Friday?
TIA,

In reply to indirectly accessing variable by santellij

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