Hello Monks,

I am writing some OO classes whose properties will be set based on the contents of XML files. When creating a new instance of the OO class, the user passes an $id. Based on the value of $id, a certain XML file will need to be parsed and the properties of the new instance need to be set from the XML file.

I'm using XML::Parser to do the parsing. How can I set the properties of the new $self object out of the startElement sub that is doing the parsing? Here is what I mean:

package Person;
use XML::Parser;

sub new {
 my $class = shift;
 my $id = shift;

 my $self = { id => $id };
 bless $self;

 ## now, set up XML::Parser;
 $parser->parsefile ("/path/to/some/file/$id.xml");
 return $self;
}

# standard XML::Parser stuff here
sub startElement {
 my( $parseinst, $element, %attrs ) = @_;

 if ($element eq "TAG") {
   my $property = $attrs{Property};
   ## HOW TO SET $self->{property} from here?
 }
}

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Or is XML::Parser the wrong tool for this job?

Thanks!

In reply to Create OO object from XML by Anonymous Monk

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