Hello monks,
I need to parse an xml document, but I am new to perl and cannot really understand the functions in XML, though they seem to be quite helpful...
So, I try to parse my xml document as a regular text file (I know it's not recommended but I do not have much time now - I will try to learn the perl-xml stuff in the near future I hope).
The part in my xml document I cannot parse is like the following:
<PubmedArticle>
            <AuthorList CompleteYN="Y">
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>van Beilen</LastName>
                    <ForeName>J B</ForeName>
                    <Initials>JB</Initials>
                </Author>
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>Penninga</LastName>
                    <ForeName>D</ForeName>
                    <Initials>D</Initials>
                </Author>
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>Witholt</LastName>
                    <ForeName>B</ForeName>
                    <Initials>B</Initials>
                </Author>
            </AuthorList>
</PubmedArticle>

<PubmedArticle>
         <AuthorList CompleteYN="Y">
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>Wilde</LastName>
                    <ForeName>A</ForeName>
                    <Initials>A</Initials>
                </Author>
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>Reaves</LastName>
                    <ForeName>B</ForeName>
                    <Initials>B</Initials>
                </Author>
                <Author ValidYN="Y">
                    <LastName>Banting</LastName>
                    <ForeName>G</ForeName>
                    <Initials>G</Initials>
                </Author>
            </AuthorList>
         </Article>
</PubmedArticle>

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Can you help me? What I try is read the whole part from <Author ValidYN="Y"> to </Author> using the /s in my regex, but then I cannot hold all of the names, it only matches the last or the first name... I am sure this an easy task using Perl and XML functions, but unfortunatelly I am rather newbie and don't know how to use them...

In reply to xml confuse by Anonymous Monk

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