Hi,

I am very new to Perl and XML so please forgive me if I sound like a noob.

In my .pl I am using XML::Simple, Data::Dumper, and HTML::Template to try to display info from an xml file to an html template. I have read and reread the CPAN articles for all the mods I am using, but still can't figure this out.

My XML looks like this:

<document>
'employee' =>{
    'department' => [
        'Operations Hardware',
        'Corporate Marketing',
        'Legal',
        'Human Resources',
        'Finance' ]
}
</document>
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To get this in perl I have:

#!/perl
#use strict;
use lib 'C:/xampp/perl/site/lib';

use HTML::Template;

$ENV{XML_SIMPLE_PREFERRED_PARSER} = 'XML::Parser';<br<
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => 'file');
my $xml = XMLin('file', ForceArray => ['option']);

my @deptartment = @{ $xml->{employee}->{department} };

$template->param(DEPT => @deptartment);
print $template->output;
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and in my .tmpl I have:

<+font size="4">Department: </+font>
    <+ul><+li><select name="dept">
    <TMPL_LOOP DEPT>
    <option value="<TMPL_VAR EMP_DEPT>"><TMPL_VAR EMP_DEPT></option>  
+               
    </TMPL_LOOP>
    </select></+li>
    </+ul>
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I'm not getting any errors, but the drop-down list in the html that gets displayed is empty. I have a feeling that I'm either (1) not getting the data from the .xml correctly, or (2) not giving the .tmpl the data in the correct format.

Please help!

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