Hello.
I have to deal with large amounts of multilingual data in XML format that looks something like this: 
<FILE>
<FOO xml:lang="en">
<BAR/>
</FOO>
<FOO xml:lang="ru">
<BAR/>
</FOO>

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Now at any given time, the user of the CGI script needs to see the data in only one of the languages, which he selects (say from a form). Within the code, I have a variable that stores the language, i.e. 
my $lang = "en";

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When I parse the XML (I'm using XML::Parser), I need only the blocks that are in the language (i.e. have the xml:lang attribute) specified by $lang. How do I do that?
So far, I haven't been able to extract the xml:lang attribute using XML::Parser. It seems to ignore attributes with the xml: prefix.
Thanks for your help!

In reply to Parsing xml:lang attribute by Anonymous Monk

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