hi,

I am a newbee to perl. I have written some simple programs but nothing very complex. I have a requirement where I have to write a complex program in Perl.

I have a XML file which looks like this : 

<?xml version="1.0">
<escinfo>
    <dbf>
        <progress>
            <record>
                <title>11111</title>
                <id>abcd</id>
            </record>
            <record>
                <title>22222</title>
                <id>efgh</id>
            </record>
        <dummy_record>
        <dummy>
                <title>22222</title>
                <id>efgh</id>
            </dummy>
        </dummy_record>
            <dummy_record/>
        </progress>
    </dbf>
</escinfo>

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I want to remove the element "dummy_record" from the file and again write the output as xml. So finally the file should look like this: 
<?xml version="1.0">
<escinfo>
    <dbf>
        <progress>
            <record>
                <title>11111</title>
                <id>abcd</id>
            </record>
            <record>
                <title>22222</title>
                <id>efgh</id>
            </record>
     </progress>
    </dbf>
</escinfo>

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How can I do this using perl ?

Thanks in advance.

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In reply to Parsing XML file and removing the element by sananpah

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