Re^4: XML::Simple--dealing with a variable element

Let's say for a given <dataschema> that one of the <attribute> stanza attributes is 'category'. Within that given <dataschema>, all 'category' names are unique. Some of those 'category' names, however, will appear in other <dataschema> stanza's 'category' names.

Does that make sense? Does that change the code at all? Have I made you so dizzy that you can't get off the floor?

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Re^5: XML::Simple--dealing with a variable element by rhesa (Vicar) on Jul 26, 2006 at 23:19 UTC
I think I'd need to see more of your data to answer that conclusively. I wrote up a little test script (if only to keep my own sanity, hehe), and that showed me I did get the attribute names according to how I understand your data. Let me know where your real stuff differs. `use XML::Simple; $data = XMLin( \*DATA, KeepRoot => 1 ); @attrs = map { keys %{ $_->{attributes}{attribute} } } values %{ $data->{dataschemas}{dataschema} }; print "@attrs"; __DATA__ <dataschemas> <dataschema name="varyingName1"> <attributes> <attribute> <one>1</one> <two>2</two> </attribute> </attributes> </dataschema> <dataschema name="varyingName2"> <attributes> <attribute> <three>3</three> <four>4</four> </attribute> </attributes> </dataschema> </dataschemas>` [download] Prints: `one two three four`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: XML::Simple--dealing with a variable element by bw (Novice) on Jul 26, 2006 at 23:33 UTC
Here's a snippet of one of the <attributes> stanzas: <attributes> <attribute category="" parser="CSVParser" /> <attribute category="APS" internalCategory="aps" /> <attribute category="ASC" internalCategory="asc" /> <attribute category="ASMT" internalCategory="asmt" /> <attribute category="LE" internalCategory="l&e" /> <attribute category="NCO" internalCategory="nco" /> <attribute category="NEED TITLE" internalCategory="need title" /> <attribute category="New Need ID" internalCategory="need id" /> <attribute category="SUMMARY OF DELIVERABLES" parser="TextParser" extract="true" segmentation="hard" /> </attributes>	[reply]