I've beaten my head against the wall trying to get XML::Parser to chop up my file in the right way. XML::Parser seems to be a good tool for the job since I need to use the Stream mode and it is already installed.

When trying to parse this file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web property="perl.com" id="12345" date="2004-07-29">             
        <level>  
                <page name="dodo bird"/>          
                <page name="camel"/>     
        </level>
        <content>
                <file type="text/*" number="123" bytes="654322"/>
                <file type="image/*" number="23" bytes="7654322"/>
        </content>
        <user>
                <Product>
                        <Name>Product1</Name>                       
                        <Quantity>1</Quantity>
                </Product>
                <Product>
                        <Name>Product2</Name>
                        <Quantity>1</Quantity>
                </Product>
        </user>        
</web>

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I'm having issues coercing the structure into a record that I can easily output. For example, I'd like to have a record like $data{ $id }->{level}->{page}->{name} where name contains both "dodo bird" and "camel"

I've read the tutorial here and that method works well when there are not multiple elements with the same name. It doesn't work well with this exampel

You know when you're trying to think of a movie star's name...and you just can't seem to come up with it? Such is my pain. Any advice is appreciated.

Anon Monk

In reply to XML Parsing Woes by Anonymous Monk

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