Dear Monks,

My program uses a SAX handler like this:
use XML::SAX;
use MySAXHandler;

my $handler = new MySAXHandler;
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(Handler => $handler);
$parser->parse_string($xmlSource);

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Now i need to access some of the data that the MySAXHandler has stored in it's $self->{'nodes'} from my main program.

I can think of 3 ways to do this:
1. Access $parser->{'nodes'} directly
2. Make some getThis and getThat functions in MySAXHandler
3. Export a datastructure from MySAXHandler to the main program.

Speed is important here but i would like to do it The Right Way™. What is the best way to get to that data from my main program?

In reply to [OO] export data from Module by Jaap

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