Hi folks, I am having an issue parsing XML using Perl's XML::Simple. The XML file I am parsing is below.... (It's called cars.xml)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<unsold>
    <car>
       <model>Hyundai</model>
       <mileage>20000</mileage>
    </car>
    <car>
       <model>Jeep</model>
       <mileage>10000</mileage>
    </car>
</unsold>
<footnotes>
    <footnote id = "F1">F1 text</footnote>
    <footnote id = "F2">F2 text</footnote>
</footnotes>
</root>
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Using Data::Dumper on this yields....

$VAR1 = {
          'unsold' => {
                      'car' => [
                               {
                                 'model' => 'Hyundai',
                                 'mileage' => '20000'
                               },
                               {
                                 'model' => 'Jeep',
                                 'mileage' => '10000'
                               }
                             ]
                    },
          'footnotes' => {
                         'footnote' => {
                                       'F2' => {
                                               'content' => 'F2 text'
                                             },
                                       'F1' => {
                                               'content' => 'F1 text'
                                             }
                                     }
                       }
        };
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The script I am using is below....

#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
$xml = new XML::Simple;
$data = $xml->XMLin("cars.xml", forcearray => ['footnote', 'car', 'id'
+]) or die "Sorry no can do:$!";
#$data = $xml->XMLin("cars.xml") or die "Sorry no can do:$!";
print Dumper($data);
exit;

foreach $e (@{$data->{unsold}{car}})
{
print "$e->{model}";
print "$e->{mileage}";
}
foreach $e (@{$data->{footnotes}})
{
print "$e->{footnote}{content}\n";
}
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Running code yields this....
Hyundai
20000
Jeep
10000
Not an ARRAY reference at ./node_test2.pl line 15


What I like about the above is that referencing model and mileage info is easy using the foreach routine above. What I need to do is to equally access the attributes of "id" and "content" in an equally simple way. Of course I may just need to use something else besides XML::Simple too but I thought I'd see if the monks had any ideas.

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