I apologize for the poorly written post. Maybe I can clear it up a bit. I'll resend my situation and question. The included XML is only a snippet of the real XML code. I just wanted to give an example of what I was dealing with. I hope the Perl is now more legible. I know there has to be a way to get the info from between the brackets.

Hello - Below you'll find a Perl script and XML code. The .pl file reads from the .xml file, then turns the XML info into an HMTL document. The script works, but it works too well. I'm trying to extract the information from between the < ! [ CDATA ] > tags. But instead it retrieves everything (the < ! [ CDATA ] > and the info within it). How can I have the script pull just the info from within the brackets?

XML:

<artikle>
<! [ CDATA [Test tittle ] ] >
</artikle>
<ingres>
<! [ CDATA [Test ingres ] ] >
</ingres>
<url>
<! [ CDATA [Test url ] ] >
</url
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PERL:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# This script retrives an xml formatted news feed document and
# generates a HTML file based on a tamplate file
#
# Format of the input should be:
# <article>Some article
# <title>Some Title</title>
# <ingress>Some text</ingress>
# <url>Some url</url>
# </article>
# 
# Modify vars in the config part to match your environment
#
# asbjorn@linux-directory.com, Oct. 2000
#
###### CONFIG START

# Input format
$article_del = "artikkel";
$title_del = "tittel";
$url_del = "url";
$ing_del = "ingress";
# Input format end

$template = "template.txt";  ### Template HTML file.
$html = "out.html";  ### Name & path of HTML file to be generated
$weburl = "http://www.filmguiden.no/xml/filmguiden.xml"; ### URL of do
+cument to be retrived
$maxarticles = 5; ### Max no. of articles to be buildt. Must match tem
+plate file
$cgi = 1;         ### Set if the script is to be run from a browser
###### CONFIG END



#### MODULES USED
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use CGI;
#### MODULES END

$q=new CGI;
print $q->header() if ( $cgi );
print $q->h3("$ver") if ( $cgi );
print "Henter $weburl";
print "<br>" if ( $cgi );

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "$weburl");
$response = $ua->request($request);

%hash = %{$response};

$content = $hash{_content};
$msg = $hash{_msg};


if ( $msg ne "OK" ) {
  print "Could not contact web server!\n";
  exit 2;
}
print "Fetched $weburl\n";
print "<br>" if ( $cgi );

open(IN,"$template") || die "Failed to open $template: $!\n";
open(OUT,">$template.tmp") || die "Failed to write to $template.txt: $
+!\n";
while(<IN>) {
  print OUT;
}
close(OUT);
close(IN);

print "Generating HTML file:\n";
print "<br>" if ( $cgi );

@art = split m#(<$article_del>|</$article_del>)#, $content;
shift @art;
pop @art;
foreach $art ( @art ) {
  ($title) = $art =~ m#<$title_del>(.*)</$title_del>#;
  ($ingress) = $art =~ m#<$ing_del>(.*)</$ing_del>#;
  ($url) = $art =~ m#<$url_del>(.*)</$url_del>#;
  ($url) = $url =~ m#<a href="(.*)">#;
  $i++ if $title;
  last if ( $i > $maxarticles );
  &writefile($i,"title",$title) if ( $title );
  &writefile($i,"ingress",$ingress) if ( $ingress );
  &writefile($i,"url",$url) if ( $url );
}
rename("$template.tmp","$html") || die "Failed to write $html: $!\n";
print "  ----:  DONE  :----";

sub writefile {
  my $num = shift;
  my $type = shift;
  my $text = shift;
 
  $st = "URL_$num" if ( $type eq "url" );
  $st = "TITTEL_$num" if ( $type eq "title" );
  $st = "INGRESS_$num" if ( $type eq "ingress" );
  open(IN,"$template.tmp") || die "Failed to open $template: $!\n";
  @in = <IN>;
  close (IN);

  open(OUT,">$template.tmp") || die "Could not write to $html: $!\n";
  foreach ( @in ) {
    s/$st/$text/g;
    print OUT;
  }
  close(OUT);
}
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