So I have been tasked (or rather, I stupidly volunteered) to help with the conversion of our LDAP users and groups to XML format for a enterprise application that needs it. After a lot of research, I decided that using a combination of Net::LDAP::LDIF with XML::Writer seemed to be the most straightforward but I am hoping that is wrong and someone here knows A BETTER WAY? Mainly cause taking the values of the read_entry() object in LDIF, is still very awkward for each of the disparate elements to be broken up into the large # of XML tags? If these two modules is the best way, does anyone know where there might be some example code that uses them for best effect?

In reply to LDAP LDIF format to XML by Binford

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