Re^3: Trees in XML

It is not XML::Simple which is mangling the order; it is the very property of a hash, that you don't have order there. That's the reason why I used forcearray in my example: This makes the person elements go into array instead of a hash, and staying in the same order as in the XML file.

BTW, does the order matter in your example?

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Re^4: Trees in XML by Anonymous Monk on Jun 03, 2008 at 12:59 UTC
I need to keep the parsed file in order as I am parsing out the value of the firstname and using it in a SQL query which then gives me a result which I will place back into the same position as the firstname value. I am aware that this is a complicated procedure and as I said I am a newbie to perl and so I am trying to boil down the solution into smaller, bitesize pieces so that I can learn and understand each step! So any clues or explanation would be great Thanks	[reply]
Re^5: Trees in XML by mirod (Canon) on Jun 03, 2008 at 13:33 UTC
Is the output you want the same XML document you are reading, with the first name replaced by the result of a query? In that case `Tree` is probably not the style you want to use. `Stream` or `Subs` would be easier to use, at least because they take care of copying the data you don't want to process as is. It still won't be as convenient as a higher-level module though, you will still have to write a bit of code yourself. At least you will have to output back the tags you are processing, and escape the text you want to insert. BTW, I have always tried to keep XML::Twig installation as simple as possible, so if you're using perl 5.8.*, you should be able to drop the `Twig.pm` file from the distribution either in you Perl's library XML directory, or just in a sub-directory named XML of the current directory.	[reply]