I'm not sure why you want to "print" the log file. I'm assuming for the sake of this post that you just need some human-readable way of viewing the XML log. So with that in mind I'm thinking that you may not even need a Perl module. Why don't you just create an XSLT style sheet for use with a browser and have each log file reference that stylesheet.

I have done this before for server status reports. The XML document makes a nice, machine-readable status report. Feeding the exact same document to a browser such as Firefox gives HTML (or text) output for humans, since it references the XSLT stylesheet.

Again, I'm not sure what you're after, but I thought I'd mention this approach.

In reply to Re: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by MonkE
in thread Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by yaneurabeya

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