What handlers are you using w/ XML::Parser? Or are you using one of the Styles? Ie. Tree style?

If you're using a handler, you can get the data in "name" in your StartTag handler. The attributes are arguments to the handler, like this: 

my $data = <<STOP;
<outside>
  <inside name="Wibble">some data</inside>
</outside>
STOP

my $parser = new XML::Parser(Handlers => {
    Start => \&start_tag
});

$parser->parse($data);

sub start_tag {
    my $expat = shift;
    my $element = shift;
    my %attrs = @_;

    print $attrs{name};
}

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If you're using the Tree style, I'm not sure exactly where you can find the value of name... try using Data::Dumper to print out the tree and see where it shows up. 
use Data::Dumper;
my $tree = $parser->parse($data);
print Dumper $tree;

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In reply to Re: More with XML Parser by btrott
in thread More with XML Parser by orthanc

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