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Hello Monks.

I am using XML::Simple for xml processing.
I read in following from a file:

<TABLE>
       <TABLE-CAPTION ID="ID64706055682598">
          <LONG-NAME>TABLE NAME</LONG-NAME>
       </TABLE-CAPTION>
       <TGROUP COLS="4">
       <COLSPEC COLNUM="1" COLNAME="col1" COLWIDTH="1.00*"/>
       <COLSPEC COLNUM="2" COLNAME="col2" COLWIDTH="1.00*"/>
       <COLSPEC COLNUM="3" COLNAME="col3" COLWIDTH="1.00*"/>
       <COLSPEC COLNUM="4" COLNAME="col4" COLWIDTH="1.00*"/>
       <TBODY>
        <ROW>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col1">A</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col2">B</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col3">C</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col4">D</ENTRY>
        </ROW>
        <ROW>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col1">E</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col2">F</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col3">G</ENTRY>
         <ENTRY COLNAME="col4">H</ENTRY>
        </ROW>
       </TBODY>
      </TGROUP>
</TABLE>
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And I want to write the same to file. Thing is, that when i am putting the xml to file some values become xml-attributes.
So in the end i got this:

<TABLE>
  <TABLE-CAPTION ID="ID64706055682598" LONG-NAME="TABLE NAME" />
  <TGROUP COLS="4">
    <COLSPEC COLNAME="col1" COLNUM="1" COLWIDTH="1.00*" />
    <COLSPEC COLNAME="col2" COLNUM="2" COLWIDTH="1.00*" />
    <COLSPEC COLNAME="col3" COLNUM="3" COLWIDTH="1.00*" />
    <COLSPEC COLNAME="col4" COLNUM="4" COLWIDTH="1.00*" />
    <TBODY>
      <ROW>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col1">A</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col2">B</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col3">C</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col4">D</ENTRY>
      </ROW>
      <ROW>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col1">E</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col2">F</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col3">G</ENTRY>
        <ENTRY COLNAME="col4">H</ENTRY>
      </ROW>
    </TBODY>
  </TGROUP>
</TABLE>
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This read about parameters to XML Simple like VauleAttr and KeyAttr but it seems to have no effect. As far as i have understood i can define with ValueAttr what should be printed as Value and not as Attribute.. Maybe i have misunderstood this API? The same idea i have form KeyAttr so i can define what hash-keys are in the end Attributes and no values..

I am stuck in the middle, any help is highly welcome!
Here my prototype where i read in the an xml-file with the content of the first XML-structure i have put here. By this i can check if (at the end) i will get the same XML-structure back when looking at $xml:

use XML::Simple;
use strict;

my $xmlParser = new XML::Simple(    RootName => 'TABLE',
    KeepRoot=>1,
    ValueAttr=>{
        'TABLE-CAPTION' => 'LONG-NAME',
    });
my $data      = $xmlParser->XMLin("testtable.xml");
my $xml       = $xmlParser->XMLout($data);
print "stop";
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Any help is highly welcome!

Regards!
Tobias

In reply to XML::Simple how do i keep the same xml format (Values and Attributs)? by tobias_hofer

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