I am having all sorts of troubles with this. I cannot seem to get this to work.

I send data to a website and it responds with something similar to this:

<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<response>

<custid>101010101</custid>
    <status>success</status>
<responsecode>11</responsecode>
<kf></kf>
<cn>1111222233334444555</cn>
<neta>7.00</neta>
<prid>X111111111111111</prid>
<ano>22222222</ano>
<trxid>33333333</trxid>
<description>Transfer Completed</description>
</response>

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I built a parser that goes through there and strips out this line: <?xml version = "1.0"?> then it gets all the data between the response tags, then I go parse out all the tags and I make a hash with the value being the data between the tags and the field being the name in the first tag, so the result should be something like this:

%_xml_response_data = (
'custid' => "101010101",
'status' => "success",
'responsecode' => "11",
'kf' => "",
'cn' => "1111222233334444555",
'neta' => "7.00",
'prid' => "X111111111111111",
'ano' => "22222222",
'trxid' => "33333333",
'description' => "Transfer Completed",
);

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So that way I can use the data like a hash, for instance to see the status:

if($_xml_response_data{status} eq "success") {
# True so do whatever...
} else {
# false so do whatever else...
}

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It was working, then I don't know something changed, and now even when the result is success, it seems to not recognize it. I figure, why re-invent the wheel, there MUST be something in cpan that works better, but there are sooooo many xml programs, I am completely lost... The more I search the more complex they get.

Does anyone know of a easy to learn simple solution to get this working? It is not a lot of data, just a simple response.

Thanks,
Richard

In reply to parsing a simple xml response by Anonymous Monk

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