Undoubtedly, there is a cleaner xpath way to do this, but I think this should help. This assumes that every url is unique (otherwise, you'll be clobbering urls).
use strict; use warnings; use XML::Twig; use Data::Dumper; my $xmlStr = <<XML; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <authenticationReports> <generatedTime>Tue Sep 29 07:07:34 PDT 2009</generatedTime> <appDeploymentFile name="app-deployment.properties.hklcp.trading"> <application name="hk"> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/accts_subscription</url> <otherPrereq>HKPwdPreReq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/accts_forms</url> <otherPrereq>HKPwdPreReq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/custtradingpage</url> <otherPrereq>BasicPrereq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/accts_userinfo</url> <otherPrereq>HKPwdPreReq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/headermain</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/custservicepage</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/accts_transfermoney</url> <otherPrereq>HKPwdPreReq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/userprereq</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/indices_us</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/homeloggedmessage</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/lead</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/orderviewmin</url> </urlInfo> <urlInfo> <url>a/b/hk/accts_changelogin</url> <otherPrereq>SessionPreReq</otherPrereq> </urlInfo> </application> </appDeploymentFile> </authenticationReports> XML my %urls; my $twig= new XML::Twig( twig_handlers => { 'appDeploymentFile' => \&appdep } ); $twig->parse($xmlStr); print Dumper(\%urls); exit; sub appdep { my ($t, $adep) = @_; my $name = $adep->att('name'); for my $urli ($adep->first_child('application')->children('urlInfo +')) { $urls{ $urli->first_child('url')->text() } = $name; } } __END__ $VAR1 = { 'a/b/hk/accts_subscription' => 'app-deployment.properties.hk +lcp.trading', 'a/b/hk/accts_changelogin' => 'app-deployment.properties.hkl +cp.trading', 'a/b/hk/lead' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.trading', 'a/b/hk/orderviewmin' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.tr +ading', 'a/b/hk/headermain' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.trad +ing', 'a/b/hk/custservicepage' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp +.trading', 'a/b/hk/custtradingpage' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp +.trading', 'a/b/hk/accts_userinfo' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp. +trading', 'a/b/hk/accts_transfermoney' => 'app-deployment.properties.h +klcp.trading', 'a/b/hk/userprereq' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.trad +ing', 'a/b/hk/homeloggedmessage' => 'app-deployment.properties.hkl +cp.trading', 'a/b/hk/indices_us' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.trad +ing', 'a/b/hk/accts_forms' => 'app-deployment.properties.hklcp.tra +ding' };

In reply to Re: XML::Twig help please by toolic
in thread XML::Twig help please by Binford

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