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

Hi My HTML is : 
<html><head><title>Report</title></head>
<body>
<form action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/temp.txt" method="POST">
<br>
Text Box:
<br> <input type="text" name="sample_text"> <br>
<br>
Check Box:
<br> <input type="checkbox" name="red" value=1>Red<br>
<br> <input type="checkbox" name="blue" value=1>Blue<br>
<br>
Radio Button
<br> <input type="radio" name="Boolean" value="true">True<br>
<br> <input type="radio" name="Boolean" value="false">False<br>
<br>
<input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "submit"/>
</form>
</body></html>

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The cgi script is 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use CGI;
use IO::File;
use XML::Simple;

my %form;
my $cgi = CGI->new;

foreach my $field ($cgi->param()) {
    
    $form{$field} = $cgi->param($field);
}

my $hash_ref = \%form;

my $output = new IO::File(">out.xml");

my $xml = XML::Simple::XMLout($hash_ref, OutputFile => $output);    

$output->close();

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The output that i am getting is 
<opt Boolean="true" blue="1" red="1" sample_text="ak" submit="submit"/
+>

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This is how i want it to look like: <code> <opt> <boolean>true</boolean> <blue>1</blue> <red>1</red> <sample_text>ak</sample_text> <submit>submit</submit> </opt> Can anyone help to get the output i want.

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Re: Formatting XML to tree
by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 10, 2011 at 22:53 UTC

    Ignore (unless the parent loses content again). OP (?) appears to have restored the missing content.

    Removed from the parent node (possibly in an editing error by OP):

    "My Cgi script to convert to XML is 

    #! /usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use CGI;
use IO::File;
use XML::Simple;

my %form;
my $cgi = CGI->new;

foreach my $field ($cgi->param()) {
    $form{$field} = $cgi->param($field);
}
my $hash_ref = \%form;
my $output = new IO::File(">out.xml");
my $xml = XML::Simple::XMLout($hash_ref, OutputFile => $output);    
$output->close();

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    My HTML Document is 

    <html><head><title>Report</title></head>
<body>
<form action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/Exmp.cgi" method="POST">
<br>
Text Box:
<br> <input type="text" name="sample_text"> <br>
<br>
Check Box:
<br> <input type="checkbox" name="red" value=1>Red<br>
<br> <input type="checkbox" name="blue" value=1>Blue<br>
<br>
Radio Button
<br> <input type="radio" name="Boolean" value="true">True<br>
<br> <input type="radio" name="Boolean" value="false">False<br>
<br>
<input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "submit"/>
</form>
</body></html>

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    Can anyone help

    </end restoration>

    At least when I saw it first, desired output already existed... and AM's Re: Formatting XML to tree was (not visible | not yet extant)

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Re: Formatting XML to tree
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2011 at 22:16 UTC
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