in reply to Parse with XML::Simple: how to keep some tags "unparsed"?

This is not valid XML. You have a tag, "<content>" that contains both a value "This is", and a child tag "<div class="red">some HTML text</div>". Pick one, or hide the <> characters with &lt;&gt;, or do the right thing and use CDATA.

Update: I stand corrected. I just checked the XML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204) and gellyfish and ktingle are correct. Sorry.

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Re^2: Parse with XML::Simple: how to keep some tags "unparsed"?
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 01, 2004 at 13:40 UTC

    It actually is valid - an node is allowed to have mixed content. This snippet will give rise to a schema like: 

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <xs:element name="page">
    <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
        <xs:element name="content">
          <xs:complexType mixed="true">
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="div">
                <xs:complexType>
                  <xs:simpleContent>
                    <xs:extension base="xs:string">
                      <xs:attribute use="required" type="xs:string" na
+me="class" />
                    </xs:extension>
                  </xs:simpleContent>
                </xs:complexType>
              </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
          </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
      </xs:sequence>
      <xs:attribute use="required" type="xs:unsignedByte" name="id" />
    </xs:complexType>
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

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    However this is certainly not what was intended - if the contents of <content /> are to be taken literally it should be a CDATA section.

    /J\

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Re^2: Parse with XML::Simple: how to keep some tags "unparsed"?
by ktingle (Sexton) on Jul 01, 2004 at 14:23 UTC
    An element can have a value and a child element, check the XML spec. Its awkward, but valid XML.
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