Hi Monks,

I'm trying to wrap my knoggen around XML::Parser and am having no luck so far...

I've been through the perl docs for it but cant understand how to easily use the output from XML::Parser->parse().

I thought I would be able to do something like: 
use XML::Parser;
use XML::Parser::EasyTree;
$XML::Parser::EasyTree::Noempty=1;
my $p = new XML::Parser(Style => 'EasyTree');
my $tree = $p->parse($xml);

my $node1 = ${$tree[0]}{name};

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but node1 is returning a blank.

The XML i am using for testing is: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<search_results count="0">
   <query>"flaherty jm" [ALL-FIELDS]</query>
</search_results>

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Could anyone suggest some better reading for me to help me understand how this works?

Cheers,
Reagen

In reply to understanding XML::Parser by rsiedl

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