Hi,

I am trying to extract xml data with the xml::parser module and to store them into an array of hashes for further processing - tag extraction works fine, but storing the tag values into the array of hashes is the issue.

May be you can assist me here and what I am doing wrong:

xml data file:

<Catalog>
<Category>
<Name>Arts &amp; Entertainment</Name>
<Site>
<Id>...</Id>
<Title>...</Title>
</Site>
<Site>
<Id>...</Id>
<Title>...</Title>
</Site>
</Category>
<Catalog>
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perl prg:

$parser = XML::Parser->new(Handlers => {Start => \&start,
                                        Char  => \&char,
                                        End   => \&end}
                          );
sub start{
    my ($p, $elt, %atts) = @_;

    if ($elt eq 'Site') {
        %site = (); #this is the hash per one site
        }

    if ($elt eq 'Id')                         { $tag_id = 1; }
    if ($elt eq 'Title')                      { $tag_title = 1; }
 }

sub char {
    my ($p, $str) = @_;
    if ($tag_id eq 1) {
        $id     = trim($str);
       }
    if ($tag_title eq 1) {
        $title = trim($str);
       }
}

sub end{
    my ($p, $elt) = @_;

    if ($tag_id eq 1 and $elt eq 'Id') {
        $site{ $id } = $id;
        $tag_id = 0;
        }

    if ($tag_title eq 1 and $elt eq 'Title') {
        $site{ $title } = $title;
        $tag_title = 0;
        }

     if ($elt eq 'Site') {
    push(@cb, %site);
    print %site . "\n";
    }
}

# if I want to process now the @cb then no data are inside.
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Thanks for assistance, Peter

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