Hello all,

I am parsing a xml file using XML::Twig like this:

XML::Twig->new(
    twig_roots => {
        'div' => \&div
    }
)->parsefile("my_file");

sub div {
  my ($t, $elt) = @_;
  # do something
  return 1;
}

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I have a run-time parameter which I want to get in div (or any other) element handler. How can I do this?

I would expect something like putting this parameter into XML::Twig constructor and then getting it from twig $t element. But there is nothing like this described in the documentation. The only way I can think about is to define own element handling package with method returning my parameter and putting this package as elt_class option into XML::Twig constructor. But that seems terribly artificial to me.

Any better ideas?

In reply to XML::Twig - provide additional parameters to twig_roots handlers by kejv2

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