Hi,

I'm a Perl newbie. I have the following in myfile.xml 

<detail>
  <start>
        <nonterminal name="A" />
  </start>
  <rules>
     <rule name="A" type="text">
        <nonterminal name="AA" />
        <nonterminal name="AC" />
        <nonterminal name="AD" />
        <nonterminal name="AB" /> 
        <nonterminal name="AE" />
     </rule>
     <rule name="AA" type="numeric">
        <token>1</token>
        <token>10</token>
     </rule>
     <rule name="AC" type="alpanumeric">
        <token>3</token>
        <nonterminal name="BE" />
        <nonterminal name="CE" />
        <token>30</token>
     </rule>
     <rule name="CE" type="special">
        <token>var1</token>
        <token>var2</token>
     </rule>
     <rule name="BE" type="symbol">
        <token>%</token>
        <token>#</token>
     </rule>
  </rules>
</detail>

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My program to read the above: 

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

  my $file_name = "myfile.xml";
  my $xmlObj = XML::Simple->new();
  my $data = $xmlObj->XMLin($file_name);
  my $primitive = 'A'
  foreach my $mydata(keys %{$data->{rules}{rule}{$primitive}{nontermin
+al}}) {
     print $mydata;
     print " ";
  }

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The output I got is AC AA AE AB AD but I wanted it in its original position, ie, AA AC AD AB AE
and how would I print a mix of nonterminal and token (as in rule AC)?
Please help.

In reply to XML::Simple How to print data in its original position by Z_S

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