Hi, I am creatin a project that opens an XML file using xml:simple, removes an element from it, and then saves it and closes. So far I have managed to get it to read the XML in, and it appears to save it, but with no update. Here is what I have. The $dat variable is an integer number referring to which 'page' element is to be removed. 
# create object
my $xml = new XML::Simple(forcearray => 1);

# read XML file
my $data = $xml->XMLin("../services/xml/".$docid.".xml");

my $pageobj=$data->{page};
delete $data->{page}[$dat];
my $xmlO = $xml->XMLout($data);

open FILE, ">../services/xml/".$docid.".xml" or die;
print FILE $xmlO;
close FILE;

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Many thanks in advance, and I look forward to many years at the monastery, I am really enjoying getting into Perl

In reply to array/hash question with XML simple by TienLung

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