how to include xml contents in another xml file

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I am using xml::simple module to create xml file. have another template which is xml file. how to bring all the contents of template xml file into new xml file which is getting created ?

##Creating object for xml file
my $xmls = XML::Simple->new( RootName  => 'POWERMART',
                             KeepRoot  => 1,   
                             ForceContent => 1,
                             ForceArray   => ['SOURCE']               
+                                                                     
+             
                             
                           );

my $contents = {};
$contents->{POWERMART}->{creattion_date}      = '02/08/2012';
##Generate the xml file
my $xmlFile = "test.xml";
$xmls->XMLout( $contents,
    xmldecl    => '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'."\n".'
+<!DOCTYPE POWERMART SYSTEM "powrmart.dtd">',
    OutputFile => $xmlFile
);
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Re: how to include xml contents in another xml file by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 22, 2012 at 16:07 UTC
...oO( I don't know which is worse, javascript or xml? ) :-) I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re: how to include xml contents in another xml file by ig (Vicar) on Aug 22, 2012 at 18:43 UTC
You can read your template file with XML::Simple, then add elements to the resulting data structure and, finally, create a new xml file from the combined contents, again with XML::Simple.	[reply]