Your know that this XML is invalid right? First there's the '-' at the begining, which might be an artifact of the way you created the post, then there is an invalid '&' in the middle of the data, which should be escaped as &.

But if you manage to get real XML, here is an example of how you could do it with XML::Twig:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Twig;


my $t= XML::Twig->new( twig_roots => { CasualAdvertiser => 1 }) # so w
+e only load CasualAdvertiser elements
                ->parsefile( "bcc.xml");

foreach my $ad ( sort { $a->field( 'Price') <=> $b->field( 'Price') } 
+$t->root->children( 'CasualAdvertiser'))
  { printf "price: %8.2d - %-30s - %6d: ID%s\n",
           $ad->field( 'Price'),
           $ad->field( 'Make') . " " . $ad->field( 'Family'),
           $ad->field( 'Kilometres'),
           $ad->field( 'AdvertisementID'),
           ;
  }
        
exit;

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In reply to Re: Best Way to parse this XML? by mirod
in thread Best Way to parse this XML? by sirius98

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