Fellow Monasterians,

Doing my first XML coding and am running into a speed bump. The following returns a error:

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::Simple;

my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);

my $xmlresource = "http://prlmnks.org/rss/458722.xml";

my $feed = $xml->XMLin($xmlresource); #line 20

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print Dumper($feed);

ERROR:
File does not exist: http://prlmnks.org/rss/458722.xml at /usr/www/use
+rs/highgate/admin/cgi-bin/xmltest.pl line 20

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If I upload a ____.xml file to the cgi-bin directory, it finds the file without incident. The XML::Simple docs mention *file* but not URL. So, how, or with what module, would I use to pull in an xml file for parsing? Thanks!


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Pulling in an RSS feed for parsing by bradcathey

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