sub error_excerpt{
return defined($error_excerpt)?$self->{_error_excerpt}:"No Error Excer
+pt.";
}

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...what the A.M. said.  In particular, where do $self and $error_excerpt come from?  For example, did you just leave out the my $self = shift; at the beginning of the routine in this sample code only, or is it also missing from the real code?

In case $error_excerpt is not available in the scope of the routine, you'd always get "No Error Excerpt.".  This would be the case if $error_excerpt is defined as a lexical variable in another routine.  In this case, an empty package variable of the same name would (silently) be used instead — unless you enable strictures...

Always use strict; use warnings; — it would likely have warned you of these types of errors.

In reply to Re: Question on XML output using Perl by almut
in thread Question on XML output using Perl by siddheshsawant

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