My company is receiving an XML transaction by email from our payment processing service everytime a user changes their email address. A transaction looks like this: 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<transactionUpdate xmlns='http://www.mypayproc.com/transaction'>
<!--

This email is to let you know blah blah blah.

-->
<transaction>
    <theTID>GH95QFEFAC80</theTID>
    <registerTo>John Citizen</registerTo>
    <customerEmails>
        oldjohn@citizen.com
    </customerEmails>
</transaction>
<updatedInformation dateOfChange='2001-6-25'>
    <customerEmails>
        newjohn@citizen.com
    </customerEmails>
    <customerEmail>newjohn@citizen.com</customerEmail>
</updatedInformation>
</transactionUpdate>
<!-- END XML FILE -->

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Rather than write my own parser, I want to resuse XML::Parser or whatever is appropriate. I want it to be able to parse the above into an object such that I can randomly access elements in it.

I have seen code that parses it and just prints it out again, but not one that functions as a real object factory. I am pretty sure XML::Parser can do this - but never seen a code example of it actually being done.

Does anyone know how to make XML::Parser act as an object factory? Example code appreciated.

In reply to XML Transaction - random access. by tomazos

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