Howdy howdy, I like XML Twig. However in the OO perl class I am programming I have a twig and am using to parse and XML file. So I assign the handler in the twig declaration, and when I start coding the handler in this class of mine I think "Oh, wait, the handler actually belongs to the twig, which is why the first argument is the twig itself. So, there is no way I can use this handler to take values from the XML item and pass it to an array in the class for use later on!" Am I wrong? Is there a way the class using the XML::Twig can swap info with the handlers? 

package SampleClass;

sub new{
    my $class = shift;

    my $self = {};
    $self->{configFile} = shift;
    $self->{fileContents} = ();
    $self->{twig} = new XML::Twig(twig_handlers =>
                                    {
                                     tag => \&tagHandler,
                                     });
    bless $self, $class;
}

. . . 

sub tagHandler{
    my $twig = shift;
    my $tag = shift;
    my $client_name = $tag->first_child('client')->text;
    my $version = $tag->first_child('version')->text;
}

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So I have this handler, and I want to take that text I am getting and use it in SampleClass. Not sure how.

In reply to Accessing outside variable using XML::Twig by KarateCowboy

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