Here are two options:

  1. send the xml to the browser, and let the browser render it: 
    use CGI qw(:cgi); # don't need HTML, only cgi stuff
print header(-type => 'application/xml');  # make browser expect xml
open XML, '<', 'foo.xml' or die $!;
print while <XML>;
  2. print an HTML rendering of your xml file: 
    use CGI qw(:standard);
sub escape_xml ($) {
  my $text = shift;
  $text =~ s/</&lt;/g;
  $text =~ s/ < >/&gt;/g;
  return $text;
}
print header, start_html('XML File');
open XML, '<', 'foo.xml' or die $!;
print "<pre>\n";
print escape_xml($_) while <XML>;
print "\n</pre>";
updated to fix the typo spotted by benizi (Thank you!)

In reply to Re: Print out an XML file to browser by odrm
in thread Print out an XML file to browser by lakeTrout

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