Hi Rob, On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:48:33 +0100 Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 22/07/2013 10:55, Omega -1911 wrote: > > > > Hello all - I am working on a small address book conversion where I need > > to convert a text file in where I dumped the addresses and post them to > > my database/website using the Mechanize module. > > > > My problem is I am trying to parse the data using the following code > > that is not working. > > > > Can anyone shed some light and point me in the right direction? Thank > > you for any ideas! > > As others have said, you should use a custom module for processing XML. > > This program shows just how easy it is to use `XML::XPath`. There are > several other modules that will do the job if this one isn't to your taste. > I recommend against using XML::XPath because it's been undermaintained, is slower than XML::LibXML's XPath support, may be more incomplete and I believe it has poorer support for XML namespaces. Instead one should use https://metacpan.org/module/XML::LibXML::XPathContext , which is part of XML-LibXML, which for completeness' sake I'd like to note that I am its primary maintainer, so I may be biased. But recommending to use XPath for that ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath ) is a good idea. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Becuase you haven't shown your entire XML I have had to remove a > superflous `</div>` from the beginning of your data and add a notional > `<root>` document element. Your actual data shouldn't need modifying. > > HTH, > > Rob > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ There’s no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there’s a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
