rhesa: the foreach option is almost working!

The first element within <attribute> is:
  <attributes>
    <attribute category="" parser="CSVParser" />

which produces the error:
Argument "" isn't numeric in each at xmlparser.pl line 58.
  Bad index while coercing array into hash at xmlparser.pl line 58.

when using the code:

foreach my $dataschema ( values %{ $data->{dataschemas}{dataschema} } 
+)
{
  while( my ($name, $value) = each %{ $dataschema->{attributes}{attrib
+ute} } ){
    # do something with the name and value
    print "\$name is: $name\n\$value is: $value\n";
    }
}

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When I used keys in place of each, I get the print line to work, but I'm stuck in an infinite loop in the process.

This shows that I don't understand very well hashes and hash functions with respect to the while( my ($name, $value) = each %{ $dataschema->{attributes}{attribute} } ) line since this error doesn't make sense to me.

I know that I'm getting hung up on the category="" item, but that's as far as I've gone in my debug process.

In reply to Re^2: XML::Simple--dealing with a variable element by bw
in thread XML::Simple--dealing with a variable element by bw

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