How to get xml page source if url is given

ashok13123 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How to get xml page source if url is given by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 29, 2009 at 04:31 UTC
The page at http://www.perlmonks.org/ is not XML (it's HTML). Pages can be fetched using LWP::UserAgent	[reply]
Re^2: How to get xml page source if url is given by holli (Abbot) on May 29, 2009 at 09:34 UTC
The OP probably meant the xml-representation of perlmonks nodes. In that case he should add `displaytype=xml` to the URI he fetches. holli When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remember that your original purpose was to drain the swamp.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to get xml page source if url is given by ambrus (Abbot) on May 29, 2009 at 06:00 UTC
For fetching http://www.perlmonks.org... see the example script at can someone help me?. In reality look at the cpan modules LWP::UserAgent, AnyEvent::HTTP, WWW::Curl, LWP::Curl etc.	[reply]
Re: How to get xml page source if url is given by ajt (Prior) on May 29, 2009 at 08:16 UTC
You can use any number of HTTP clients to get a URI, wget, curl, GET (from LWP) from the Linux command line. Within a Perl program, as others have said there are also a range of HTTP clients, LWP being the most obvious. However your question suggests you want the XML source of a page before it is turned into a (X)HTML page. That is more complex as the transformation usually takes place at the server side and you may or may not be able to gain access to that depending on how the server is configured. -- ajt	[reply]