This a question that addresses HTML::Parser, XML::Parser, and Parse::RecDescent.

Every intro article and related code I've seen using these modules uses them to translate between formats. So far so good, but now I need to understand positional information. (For example, in XML::Parser, I have a series of <elementX> <date>Text</date><amount>Amount</amount></elementX> sets. I need to recognize what tagset text is inside of, and then associate that data with the order of the outer tags. (i.e. I want to end up with something like [{date=>'Text', amount =>'Amount'}, {date=>'Text2',amount=>'Amount2'}...]

The simple parsers I have to examine use global variables. The documentation seems to imply there are more advanced methods of dealing with this, but they all assume more parser experience than I have.

What am I missing? Is there some way to pass objects into my parse handlers, or make those handlers part of an object?

In reply to Saving values in a parser by swiftone

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