LWP parsing - small question about tags

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

Dear Monks,
I'm trying to parse an rss feed using LWP:Simple. I've done quite a bit of parsing but I'm stumped on this one new feed. Usually to grab the title I use the following:

 $story_headline = $xml->{entry}->[0]->{title}->[0];
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But on this particular feed, the title looks like this:

<entry>
...
    <title type='text'>My Title</title>
...
</entry>
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The extra "type='text'" is throwing things off. How do I modify my line of code above so that it grabs the data between the title tags?

Thank you!

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Re: LWP parsing - small question about tags by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 18, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
I think you mean XML::Simple. Use `ForceContent => 1` and the following will work whether `title` has attributes or not: `$xml->{entry}[0]->{title}[0]->{content};` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]