Dear Monks, I have to concatenate xml files, and discard the outer delimiting tags.

So the files might look like this: 

<!-- file 1 -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
    <bar1>some data</bar1>
    <!-- more data here -->
</foo>

<!--file 2-->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
    <bar2>some more data</bar2>
    <!-- more data here -->
</foo>

<!-- this is how the resulting file should look like: -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
    <bar1>some data</bar1>
    <!-- more data here -->
    <bar2>some more data</bar2>
    <!-- more data here -->
</foo>

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My first attempt was to use XML::Twig, but the vast number of methods overwhelmed me, and I couldn't find one that simply returns a text representation of all the sub elements (including markup).

Is there an easy way to do it with XML::Twig or another XML module?

I could certainly use regexes to parse the beginning of the file and then paste it verbatim until the second-to-last line in the file, but that seems a bit ugly, so I'd appreciate better suggestions ;-)

Update: fixed type in title (how embarrassing)

Perl 6 in German

In reply to Concatenating XML files by moritz

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