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

I am using xmlin function of XML::Simple to parse XML data file. However, it reads the XML comments which i would like to ignore. How can this be accomplished. I think this can be done using XML::Twig but i would like to use XML::Simple

Here is a snippet of my code. 

$xmlObj = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[], SuppressEmpty => 1);
my $xmlFileKeyAttr = eval { $xmlObj->XMLin($file) };

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: How to ignore XML comments using XML::Simple
by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 16, 2011 at 22:02 UTC
    XML::Simple seems to ignore comments. 
    use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = '
<foo>
    <bar>123</bar>
    <!-- COMMENT -->
    <bar>abc</bar>
</foo>
';

my $ref = XMLin($xml);
print Dumper($ref);

__END__

$VAR1 = {
          'bar' => [
                   '123',
                   'abc'
                 ]
        };

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    Please show a small snippet of your XML file and the contents of your $xmlFileKeyAttr (both with comments).
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