Monks,

I have a KML file that I need to parse. I would like to do this without the help of a module. Here is an example:

<Placemark>
<name>This is the title</name>
...
<coordinates>12,34,0</coordinates>
</Placemark>

<Placemark>
<name>This is another title</name>
</Placemark>

<Placemark>
<name>One more</name>
<coordinates>56,78,0</coordinates>
...
<coordinates>-99,-88,0</coordinates>
</Placemark>
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I would like to create hashes from all occurrences of <name> and its corresponding <coordinates>.

foreach (@kmlFile)
     {
     if (m/<name>(.*)<\/name>/)
          {
          %{$1} = (name => "<name>$1</name");
          }
     }
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Great, all I need is a way to find any <coordinates> tags that occur on lines after <name>, so that each coordinate is stored in a hash with its corresponding name. One of the problems with this is that there are some <name> tags that exist without <coordinates> (center three lines in the example above).

In other words, the code need only extract the next <coordinates> that occur after a <name> -- these coordinates would only be associated with the <name> that preceeds it, all other <coordinates> would be ignored until found again after the next <name>.

These occurrences are not necessarily on consecutive lines

From the above, I would need:

%This is the title = 
     (
     name => "<name>This is the title</name",
     coordinates => "<coordinates>12,34,0</coordinates>",
     )

%One more = 
     (
     name => "<name>One more</name>",
     coordinates => "<coordinates>56,78,0</coordinates>",
     )
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If a mod is the only option, please let me know...

Thanks for any help,

-Newbs

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