Hi Monks!

I am trying to parse a simple XML file with the XML::Parser module. I use the Stream style as it seems more appropriate for my needs. I would like to make a graph out of some entries in the xml file, but I have a hard time parsing correctly the text of some entries. It seems that the Text subroutine is called a couple of times in the beginning AND in the end of each entry. Is there any way to control this behavior? Perhaps I haven't understood something about parsing XML's but it seems to me more reasonable to call the Text sub once for each entry in a consistent way (beginning OR end) which would make my code much simpler and easy.

Any recommendations on what to do?

The main part of the input file looks like:

<entry> this is the text I would like to parse</entry>
<entry>more text
   <secondentry>interesting text</secondentry>
</entry>

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so I made a stack containing the innermost entry (adding in sub StartTag and removing when in EndTag) I was planning to add a list for pushing Text strings in it while in sub Text, but...I got stuck

Thanks!

In reply to confused with Stream style in XML::Parser by diamantis

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