Dear all,

I am new to Perl / XML::Simple and my only programming experience was with Pascal about 10 years ago.

However there is something I really want to do when I handle some xml files. The code I am dealing with is something like this:

<entry rootUID="281088" Class="A" Name="abc"><h-g><h>abc</h><runhd>abc
+</runhd><z>/</z><i-g><i>abc123</i></i-g><z>/</z></h-g><zp_pvg /><pv-g
+><pv>abc is 123</pv><z> (</z><r r="REG" /><z><it2>Reg</it2>) </z><d t
+ranID="1" status="3">abc is a company.<chn localeUID="202" status="3"
+>(Chinese translation)</chn></d><z>: </z><x tranID="2" status="3">abc
+ launched in 1992.<chn localeUID="202" status="3">Some other Chinese 
+translation</chn></x><obj-g><zp_cl /><z>Symbolmark</z><cl>rules</cl><
+ar>, </ar><cl>decision</cl><ar>, </ar><cl>the law</cl><z>Another Symb
+ol</z><syn>Something </syn><cf>(positive)</cf></obj-g><zp_gr /><z>som
+e symbol</z><gr-g><gr gr="P" /><z><arit>1+1=3</arit></z></gr-g></pv-g
+></entry>
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What I want to do is to extract only the things I need from the code above, and generate something like below:

<entry rootUID="281088" Class="A" Name="abc">
<h-g>
<h>abc</h>
<pv-g>
<pv>abc is 123</pv>
<r r="REG" />
<d tranID="1" status="3">abc is a company.
<chn localeUID="1" status="3">(Chinese translation)</chn>
</d>
<x tranID="2" status="3">abc launched in 1992.
<chn localeUID="202" status="3">Some other Chinese translation</chn>
</x>
<obj-g>
<cl>rules</cl>
<cl>decision</cl>
<cl>the law</cl>
<syn>Something </syn><cf>(positive)</cf>
</obj-g>
<gr-g>
<gr gr="P" />
<arit>1+1=3</arit>
</gr-g>
</pv-g>
</entry>
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I successfully converted the xml data into this:

$VAR1 = {
          'entry' => {
                     'h-g' => {
                              'runhd' => 'abc',
                              'h' => 'abc',
                              'z' => [
                                     '/',
                                     '/'
                                   ],
                              'i-g' => {
                                       'i' => 'abc123'
                                     }
                            },
                     'rootUID' => '281088',
                     'zp_pvg' => {},
                     'Class' => 'A',
                     'Name' => 'abc',
                     'pv-g' => {
                               'zp_gr' => {},
                               'r' => {
                                      'r' => 'REG'
                                    },
                               'pv' => 'abc is 123',
                               'gr-g' => {
                                         'gr' => {
                                                 'gr' => 'P'
                                               },
                                         'z' => {
                                                'arit' => '1+1=3'
                                              }
                                       },
                               'x' => {
                                      'chn' => {
                                               'localeUID' => '202',
                                               'status' => '3',
                                               'content' => 'Some othe
+r Chinese
translation'
                                             },
                                      'tranID' => '2',
                                      'status' => '3',
                                      'content' => 'abc launched in 19
+92.'
                                    },
                               'd' => {
                                      'chn' => {
                                               'localeUID' => '202',
                                               'status' => '3',
                                               'content' => '(Chinese 
+translatio
n)'
                                             },
                                      'tranID' => '1',
                                      'status' => '3',
                                      'content' => 'abc is a company.'
                                    },
                               'obj-g' => {
                                          'cl' => [
                                                  'rules',
                                                  'decision',
                                                  'the law'
                                                ],
                                          'cf' => '(positive)',
                                          'syn' => 'Something ',
                                          'z' => [
                                                 'Symbolmark',
                                                 'Another Symbol'
                                               ],
                                          'zp_cl' => {},
                                          'ar' => [
                                                  ', ',
                                                  ', '
                                                ]
                                        },
                               'z' => [
                                      ' (',
                                      {
                                        'it2' => 'Reg',
                                        'content' => ') '
                                      },
                                      ': ',
                                      'some symbol'
                                    ]
                             }
                   }
        };
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but I don't know how to add filter to the file

In my mind, first, I need to use Simple::XML XMLin to open the file, so to convert the XML into perl structure

second, I need to set some if, then rules to preserve the data

Lastly, to wrap the data back into XML using Simple:xml.

But after some reading, I still have no idea on what to do with Step 2 and Step 3...

Can anyne help?

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