It took me a little while to figure out how to load a local XML file, so I figured I'd post it in case anyone else needed to do such a thing.

use IO::File;
...
my $fileStream = new IO::File ("yourDocumentName.xml");
...
my $parser = new XML::Parser 
   ( Handlers => 
      {   # Creates our parser object
         Start   => \&hdl_start,
         End     => \&hdl_end,
         Char    => \&hdl_char,
         Default => \&hdl_def,
      }
   );
...
$parser->parse($fileStream);

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It's not very complicated, but I figured I'd post it as a reference.

Great tutorial - very useful - Thanks.


A Quick revision: I was just notified by OeufMayo that there is another way to read in the file that I entirely missed. Apparently, you can also use:

$parser->parsefile($filename)

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I guess that would have been a lot easier in the first place. :-D

-Sherlock

In reply to Loading a Local File by Sherlock
in thread XML::Parser Tutorial by OeufMayo

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