in reply to Apache::ConfigFile iterate problem

Here's my understanding of what your situation. First, you have a complex data structure ("Hash of Hashes of (Hashes/Arrays)"). Second, you want to put this complex data structure into an XML file. Is that correct?

Assuming that my description above is correct, one method would be to use XML::Simple to generate the XML for you. The code for doing that would be something like this:

use strict;
use XML::Simple;

my $data;
# insert code to create complex data structure in $data;

my $xml = XMLout($data, XMLDecl => 1);
open(FH,">output.xml") || die "Unable to open 'output.xml':  $!\n";
print FH $xml;
close FH;

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If you don't care for XML::Simple, there are other modules that might be able to do something similar. I mentioned this module because I've used it and it sounded like you already had a data structure that could be used as is by this module.

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Re^2: Apache::ConfigFile iterate problem
by tpais (Novice) on Sep 07, 2010 at 05:43 UTC

    Thank you for your code. This works wonderful for an singular vhost.

    (XML::Simple make an stop after one vhost. I don't know why.)

    I have multiple vhosts in multiple files and now I have a code which can become analyzed:

    foreach for $xml and open/close does not work well.

    use Apache::ConfigFile;

foreach my $vh_file (@vhost_files)
{
    next if $vh_file =~ /000.*/;
    my $ac = Apache::ConfigFile->read(file=>"$vhost_path/$vh_file", ig
+nore_case=>0, fix_booleans=>0);

    my @vhkeys = $ac->cmd_context('VirtualHost');
    for my $vhkey (@vhkeys)
    {
        foreach my $vhost ( $ac->cmd_context(VirtualHost => $vhkey) )
        {
            my $sn=$vhost->cmd_config('ServerName');
            $vh{$sn} = $vhost->data;
        }
    }
}

    my $xml = XMLout(\%vh, XMLDecl => 1);
    open(FH,">>/tmp/output1.xml") || die "Unable to open 'output.xml':
+  $!\n";
    print FH $xml;
    close FH;

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