I have a chunk of xml code with a bunch of elements in it. I need to replace some of the data in the xml with some other values. I can make XML::Simple do this, but it mangles the order. I am now trying to get XML::LibXML to work, but I am having a great deal of trouble.

The part of the xml I am wanting to change looks like this:

<remote name="korg">

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I need to be able to change the 'korg' value to something else without totally making a hash out of the document.

What I have tried looks like:

   my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
   my $doc    = $parser->parse_file($filename);
   my $root = $doc->getDocumentElement;
   print $doc->toString;
   my $query1 = '//remote[@name="korg"]/';
   my ($node1)  = $doc->findnodes($query1);
   $node1->setData('other');

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This was pulled from a XML::LibXML sample. unfortunatly the sample errors out saying it cannot find the function setData in XML::LibXML::Element.

Any ideas how to make this work? I am not a total Perl newbie, but I am a total XPath newbie.

Thanks!

In reply to How do I get LibXML to replace attribute values? by alanpdx

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