Hi Monkees,

Actually, put a hold on this for the moment - setting forcearray to 1 seems to resolve my initial problem, but I may be back with further probs. RSN...

With the following code, I want $xml_src and $xml_out to be identical, but everything inside bar ends up as an attribute of bar. What am I doing wrong?

I'm fairly sure that it's to do with needing keyattr and forcearray, but I'm struggling to understand what I'm meant to do...

use strict;
use XML::Simple;

my $xml_src  = 
'<foo>
  <bar><number>1</number><foobar>Hello world</foobar><barfoo>Goodbye w
+orld</barfoo></bar>
  <bar><number>2</number><foobar>abc</foobar><barfoo>def</barfoo></bar
+>
</foo>'
;

my $xml_in = XMLin($xml_src, );
my $xml_out = XMLout(Test(), rootname=>'foo');

# how do I make $xml_out == $xml_src ?
print "Source:\n" . $xml_src . "\n\n";
print "Output:\n" . $xml_out . "\n";

sub Test{
  my $entry;
  my $out;
  foreach $entry(@{${$xml_in}{'bar'}}){
    push @{${$out}{'bar'}}, $entry;
  }
  return $out;
}

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Can anyone advise?

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to XML::Simple help please by Melly

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