tried the package XML::SIMPLE and I can read out an XML but when I try to read my data by just selection the info I need it wont return a value.

What? Also, your XML isn't valid. 

$ perl -MXML::Simple -MDDS -le" Dump( XMLin( shift ))" quat.xml
$HASH1 = { JOB => {
           GROUP      => 'xp_maint',
           NODEID     => 'localhost',
           QUANTITATIVE
                      => [
                           {
                             NAME  => 'QR1-INIT',
                             QUANT => 1
                           },
                           {
                             NAME  => 'QR2-NODEID',
                             QUANT => 1
                           },
                           {
                             NAME  => 'QR3-GROUP',
                             QUANT => 1
                           }
                         ],
           USE_INSTREAM_JCL
                      => 0
         } };

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$ cat quat.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>
<!DOCTYPE DEFJOB SYSTEM "/aa/em/ddd/e62xstf3/resource/defjob.dtd">
 <DEFJOB >
  <JOB
   GROUP="xp_maint"
   NODEID="localhost"
   USE_INSTREAM_JCL="0"
>
   <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR1-INIT" QUANT="1" />
   <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR2-NODEID" QUANT="1" />
   <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR3-GROUP" QUANT="1" />
  </JOB>
</DEFJOB>


$ perl -MXML::Simple -le " print XMLout( XMLin( shift ), qw! RootName 
+DEFJOB XMLDecl ! , qq[<?xml version=\x221.0\x22 encoding=\x22ISO-8859
+-1\x22 ?>\n<!DOCTYPE DEFJOB SYSTEM \x22/aa/em/ddd/e62xstf3/resource/d
+efjob.dtd\x22>] )" quat.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE DEFJOB SYSTEM "/aa/em/ddd/e62xstf3/resource/defjob.dtd">
<DEFJOB>
  <JOB GROUP="xp_maint" NODEID="localhost" USE_INSTREAM_JCL="0">
    <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR1-INIT" QUANT="1" />
    <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR2-NODEID" QUANT="1" />
    <QUANTITATIVE NAME="QR3-GROUP" QUANT="1" />
  </JOB>
</DEFJOB>

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1. What would be the best package to use? XML::SIMPLE?

It depends. You can't go wrong with XML::Twig, XML::Rules, XML::LibXML...

I was thinking to read the data into an array, then to see if any "QUANTITATIVE NAME" is used, if not I would create new ones with the GROUP / NODEID

Um, try it and you'll see why its a bad idea, but if you can make it work, or like suffering .... to each his own :)

In reply to Re: Reading and Manipulation XML Files by Anonymous Monk
in thread Reading and Manipulation XML Files by gizmojunkee

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