Greetings all,
A bit off topic but here is a little script I use to investigate how XML::Simple is parsing my *.xml files
This is meant to be run from the same directory that contains the xml files. Nothing novel but I find it useful.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;
#get all the .xml files from this base directory
unless(opendir(CNF, '.')){
    die "Unable to open directory for reading\n";
}
my @config_files = sort grep { /\.xml$/ && -f "$_"} readdir(CNF);
#clean up
close CNF;
DISPLAY:
{
    print "Please select a file for parsing:\n";
    for(my $i = 1; $i-1 < scalar(@config_files); $i++){
        print "\t$i. $config_files[$i-1]\n";
    }
    print "\n\t# ";
}
my ($filenum, $filename);
chomp($filenum =  <STDIN>);
if($filenum !~ /^\d$/){
    print "Please select the number\n";
    goto DISPLAY;
}else{
    $filename = $config_files[$filenum-1];
}

unless(open(CNF, $filename)){
    die "unable to open XML config file". $!;
    
}else{
    my $file = do {local $/ = undef; <CNF>};
    close CNF;
    my $xs = new XML::Simple();
    my $ref = $xs->XMLin($file);
    print "\nXML structure (current).\n";
    print Dumper($ref);
    print "\n";
    ENDING:{
        print "\n Q to quit\n";
        my $key;
        chomp($key = <STDIN>);
        unless($key =~ /q/i){
            goto ENDING;
        }else{
            exit;
        }
    }
}

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-InjunJoel
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In reply to Re: using xml::simple with unknown xml structure by injunjoel
in thread using xml::simple with unknown xml structure by ctaustin

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