Ok

So here is what I have:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;
# use XML::LibXML;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
no warnings 'uninitialized';
use Data::Dumper; 

my $data_dir = "/weatherdata";   
my $current_file = 'SDC095.xml';   
    
my $current = XMLin($current_file);

# These seem to work if there is no active alert  
# my $warntitle = $current->{'entry'}->{'title'};
# my $warnlink = $current->{'entry'}->{'id'};
# my $warntext = $current->{'entry'}->{'summary'};

# These work if I already know the full URL for the alert
my $warntitle = $current->{'entry'}->{'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/w
+wacapget.php?x=SD124CB88C681C.SpecialWeatherStatement.124CB88C9184SD.
+UNRSPSUNR.046ee1fda521a403079118865edf9ad4'}->{'title'};
my $warnlink = $current->{'entry'}->{'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/ww
+acapget.php?x=SD124CB88C681C.SpecialWeatherStatement.124CB88C9184SD.U
+NRSPSUNR.046ee1fda521a403079118865edf9ad4'}->{'id'};
my $warntext = $current->{'entry'}->{'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/ww
+acapget.php?x=SD124CB88C681C.SpecialWeatherStatement.124CB88C9184SD.U
+NRSPSUNR.046ee1fda521a403079118865edf9ad4'}->{'summary'};
 
print "$warntitle\n";
print "$warnlink\n";
print "$warntext\n";
 
# print output
# print Dumper($current);
[download]

And here is the XML file:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2859483/SDC095.xml

It wont let me post it as code in this message

So, usually if there is no warnings in the area, I get the data ok, but in this case, instead of the second tier being 'title' 'id' and 'summary' those are being pushed to the third tier, and the second tier key is now 'http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=SD124CB88C681C.SpecialWeatherStatement.124CB88C9184SD.UNRSPSUNR.046ee1fda521a403079118865edf9ad4' and since I do not know that in advance, it's hard to get results that way.

John

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