Hi Monks,

I have an XML::Simple question. I'm trying to format a data structure into an XML node that will be understood by my companies legacy apps.

Making changes to the underlying data structure will mean big changes, so am investigating all possible XMLOut() options first. The data structure is:

'user' => { 
    'favorites' => [ 
        { 'title' => 'Book1','genre' => '5','author' => 'Someone' },
        { 'title' => 'Book2','genre' => '1','author' => 'Someone' }
        ]
    }

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XMLout() formats this to: 

<user>
    <favorites>
        <title>Book1</title>
        <genre>5</genre>
        <author>Someone</author>
    </favorites>
    <favorites>
        <title>Book2</title>
        <genre>1</genre>
        <author>Someone</author>
    </favorites>
</user>

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Is it possible to use any of XMLout's options to get the desired format below? 

<user>
    <favorites>
        <item>
            <title>Book1</title>
            <genre>5</genre>
            <author>Someone</author>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title>Book2</title>
            <genre>1</genre>
            <author>Someone</author>
        </item>        
    </favorites>
</user>

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My current XML::Simple options are; 

use XML::Simple qw(:strict); #must use strict
my $xs = new XML::Simple;
my $xml = $xs->XMLout($req,NoAttr => 1,RootName=>'user',KeyAttr=>[]);

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Any help greatly appreciated.

In reply to XML::Simple, XMLOut() question by duesouth

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