XML::LibXML is also a good one for general xml parsing/manipulation.
-----Original Message-----
From: mirod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 June 2007 08:47
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: XML Parsing
On Jun 25, 3:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Blezien) wrote:
> I need to parse a fairly largeXMLresponse file and would like some
> suggestions on whichXMLmodule would work the best. We've been using
> theXML::Simple module, but I don't think that's the right one for the
> job. Below is theXML file we need to parse. In particular getting the
> data from the elements within the <message></message> Would
> theXML::Twigmodule work better for this ?? Any suggestion would be
> much appreciated.
Hi Mike,
XML::Twig would probably work fine, you can for example do XML::Twig->new(
twig_roots => { message => sub { push @messages, $_-
>text; $_->purge;}, },)
->parsefile( 'file.xml');
message texts will be in @messages
If you need more information than just the text of the message elements,
then you can use twig_handlers instead of twig_roots, look at the docs for
the difference.
That said if the files are the size of your example, that's really small, so
there should be no need to switch from a module that loads the entire file
in memory. OTOH if message elements can contain mixed content (embedded
markup like <b> for example), then that would be a reason to avoid
XML::Simple.
I hope that helps.
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mirod
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