I think using the word "parent" is misleading in your title, because you seem to (properly) use containment/delegation instead of inheritance. If I misunderstand your setup, the following likely is also wrong:

I would pass closures as the callbacks that contain and pass on the reference to $self as well:

sub parse {
    my ($self, $xmlfile) = @_;

    my $parser = XML::Parser->new(
        Handlers => {Start => sub { $self->handle_start(@_) },
                     End   => sub { $self->handle_end(@_) },
                     Char  => sub { $self->handle_char(@_) },
    );

    $parser->parsefile($xmlfile);
}

sub handle_start {
    my ($self, $parser, @args) = @_;
    print $self->{i_need_this};
    ...
};

...

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In reply to Re: Access parent class object in callback by Corion
in thread Access parent class object in callback by Elijah

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