Just to add,
I can recursively extract all the elements, but the problem <node id="0"> comes last, ie Twig is performing the entire parsing in memory (<geography> node is 35MB large) and runs out of memory...

What I want, is to parse <node id="0"> and purge before moving onto the next node

what I have at the moment, which is running out of memory is


#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;

my $file = $ARGV[0];

my $twig= new XML::Twig(
    TwigRoots=>{geography=>1},
    TwigHandlers=>    {    'node' =>\&geog_node
                    }
    
);

$twig->parsefile($file);

sub geog_node {
    my($twig, $section) = @_;
    if($section->att('hidden') eq '0') {
        print"Data for node: \n";
        print"\tID:\t",$section->att('id'),"\n";
        print "\tDesc:\t",$section->first_child('description')->text,"
+\n";
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Recursive XML navigation XML::Twig help! by inputsprocket
in thread Recursive XML navigation XML::Twig help! by inputsprocket

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