Hello,

I'm trying to use Twig to parse an XML document that contains prefixes associated with namespaces. I don't know how create the path without hardcoding the prefix. Any help would be appreciated.

My XML document looks like this:

<prefix:monastery xmlns:prefix="http://perlmonks.org">
  <prefix:foo>
    <prefix2:bar xmlns:prefix2="http://perlmonks.org/blah">
       <prefix2:monk>Larry Wall</prefix2:monk>
    </prefix2:bar>
  </prefix:foo>
</prefix>
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But my script doesn't work unless I have it like this:

my $trigger = "prefix:monastery/prefix:foo/prefix2:bar/prefix2:monk";
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(TwigHandlers => { $trigger => \&function });
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Since I cannot relay on the name of prefix and prefix2, I would like to see have something like this:

my $trigger = "*:monastery/*:foo/*:bar/*:monk";
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(TwigHandlers => { $trigger => \&function });
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I tried that, and it complains that it's not a correct trigger. Has anyone encountered this issue with XML::Twig?

Thanks!

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Update

I found how to do it. I just needed to read more the documentation :-)

my $xml_ns = {
"http://perlmonks.org" => prefix,
"http://perlmonks.org/blah" => prefix2
};
my $trigger = "prefix:monastery/prefix:foo/prefix2:bar/prefix2:monk";
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
  map_xmlns => $xml_ns,
  TwigHandlers => { $trigger => \&function }
);
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UPDATE 2 - Didn't work!

Sorry, I spoke too soon.

Could someone shed a light?

This handler nevers gets called.

use XML::Twig;
use strict;
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
    map_xmlns => {
        "http://perlmonks.org"  => 'aaa',
        "http://perlmonks.org/blah"=> 'bbb'
    },
    TwigHandlers => {
        '/aaa:monastery/aaa:foo/bbb:bar/bbb:monk' => sub { warn "match
+ed!"; $_[0]->purge; }
    }
);

my $xml =<<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<prefix:monastery xmlns:prefix="http://perlmonks.org">
  <prefix:foo>
    <prefix2:bar xmlns:prefix2="http://perlmonks.org/blah">
       <prefix2:monk>Larry Wall</prefix2:monk>
    </prefix2:bar>
  </prefix:foo>
</prefix:monastery>
XML

$twig->parse($xml);
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But this one works.

use XML::Twig;
use strict;
my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
    TwigHandlers => {
        '/prefix:monastery/prefix:foo/prefix2:bar/prefix2:monk' => sub
+ { warn "matched!"; $_[0]->purge; }
    }
);
my $xml =<<XML;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<prefix:monastery xmlns:prefix="http://perlmonks.org">
  <prefix:foo>
    <prefix2:bar xmlns:prefix2="http://perlmonks.org/blah">
       <prefix2:monk>Larry Wall</prefix2:monk>
    </prefix2:bar>
  </prefix:foo>
</prefix:monastery>
XML

$twig->parse($xml);
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