in reply to Re^2: XML parsing
in thread XML parsing

Yes, you are of course right. I was only looking on the xmlin line not on the qx one. However, the added spaces shouldn't do any harm in normal XML files.

I had the "@array" version in mind because I used XML::Simple just this week and had to read the input file manually line-wise to fix a known broken tag before calling xmlin.

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Re^4: XML parsing
by Jenda (Abbot) on Sep 17, 2008 at 20:43 UTC

    Depends on what do you call normal. It will not corrupt the XML, but it may change the text content of some tags. Even in a data-oriented XML. I don't know about your XML files, but mine often do contain tags with several lines long content.

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      Jenda, you are of course right in the general case. My original posting said "use stringification or join" to avoid that the 2nd and later lines are taken as XML::Simple options. I was just pointing the OP in the right direction and was trusting him to figure out if spaces are significant for his application or not. If so, a local $" = '' or, like I said before, a  join '', @array would do the job.

      BTW, my XML file was a XHTML website.

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