Hi rsriram,

I think if your XML file is not well-formed you cannot process your file with XML::Twig. Instead you can do using regex. Before that you have to select the required <p> for processing id.

After selecting required paragraphs <p>, you can do something like this.

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $string = '<xml>
<p>here the paragraph comes</p>
<p>here the paragraph comes</p>
<p>here the paragraph comes</p>
<p>here the paragraph comes</p>
</xml>';

my $i =1;

$string =~ s/<p>/'<p id="'.$i++.'">'/egs;

print $string;

output:
-------
<xml>
<p id="1">here the paragraph comes</p>
<p id="2">here the paragraph comes</p>
<p id="3">here the paragraph comes</p>
<p id="4">here the paragraph comes</p>
</xml>
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