I just started using PERL 1 week ago and I am a programming newbee. Please Help as my company project is relying on this. The Situation: I would like to open an XML file, in this example is Library.xml and edit the XML document using a specific "ISBN" number. After the ISBN number is found, I would like to change the number of pages for the particular book with the matching "ISBN" number. The Problem: now, I can do the above but, I need to save the updated XML with the same name "library.xml" and also maintaining the XML structure of the original XML document. This is where I am stumped. I have tried using XML::DUMPER, and XML::TWIG and may others but have failed. The output does not reflect the original XML structure. PLease help.

In reply to parse, edit and save in the same XML file by veritas_penang

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