Re^2: Extracting tagged data from a XML file

Doesn't that only catch top-level nodes in the file?

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Re^3: Extracting tagged data from a XML file by reneeb (Chaplain) on Aug 31, 2004 at 10:44 UTC
XML::Simple parses the whole file. With Data::Dumper you can display the datastructure! You can get the values for all nodes in the xml-file.	[reply]
Re^4: Extracting tagged data from a XML file by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 31, 2004 at 10:53 UTC
Oh, I know how XML::Simple works. It just seems a lot of work to load the file into a data structure and then manually examine the data structure to find out which parts to are interested in. The XPath solution just grabs all of the correct nodes no matter where they are in the file. There are certainly times when XML::Simple is the right tools for the job - but I don't thing this is one of them. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]