in reply to XML parsing question

use strict; use XML::Rules; use Text::CSV_XS; my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new (); my $parser = XML::Rules->new( stripspaces => 7, rules => { _default => 'content', record => sub { my ($tag,$attr,$context,$parent) = @_; $csv->combine ( $parent->[-1]{datetime}, $parent->[-1]{id}, $parent->[-1]{sourcecategory}, $parent->[-1]{schemeversion}, $attr->{'sentence-number'}, $attr->{'data-class'}, $attr->{'group'}, ) and print $csv->string(),"\n" or die "Error building the + CSV line: ".$csv->error_input()."\n"; return; }, '^document' => sub { my ($tag,$attr) = @_; $csv->combine ( $attr->{datetime}, $attr->{id}, $attr->{sourcecategory}, $attr->{schemeversion}, ) and print $csv->string(),"\n" or die "Error building the + CSV line: ".$csv->error_input()."\n"; return 1; }, 'document' => '', # do not want to remember any data } ); $parser->parse(\*DATA); __DATA__ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <results> <document id="\2006\200601\20060125\20060125_18.txt" datetime="2006/01/25" sourcecategory="News Archive" schemeversion="1.1"> ...

The nice thing is that this works even if the XML is huge as it doesn't keep the whole document in memory. Rather it only remembers the attributes of a single <document> and the contents of one <record>.

Jenda
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