Re^2: Parsing XML with XML::Simple

[madbombX]

You hit the nail on the head. Everything I had worked just fine. The problem is that when I ran it through Firefox, I noticed that a few points throughout the articles, I have the author emails in the following format:

First Last <[e-mail]>

That messed everything up and all my original code actually works. Is there a way around that using XML::Simple or XML::Twig so that I don't have to go through EVERY file and remove all instances of that?

[ferreira]

The big issue is that if you have First Last <[e-mail]> within your XML, you have bad XML. (It should be First Last &lt;[e-mail]&gt;.) It is better to fix these files. I am not sure how you came into this, because XML::Simple usually escapes these things:

$ perl -MXML::Simple -e "print XMLout({ a => 'a <b>' })"
<opt a="a &lt;b&gt;" />

It could be the version you're using. The example above used

$ which_pm XML::Simple
XML::Simple       2.13    c:/tools/apache/Perl/site/lib/XML/Simple.pm

[madbombX]

I am using XML::Simple version 2.14. I came into this because part of my company policy requires us, in our CVS headers to have that line as part of the template for documents/scripts/etc that go into CVS. Therefore, the XML files that are turned into articles all have those within the top 5 lines. Neither XML::Simple or XML::Twig handle this properly.

[GrandFather]

So you are suggesting that the XML::Simple file is post-processed in some fashion to insert extra information? The fix in that case is to pre-process the file at the other end to remove said extra information. Alternatively the code using XML::Simple to generate the file might be modified to insert the extra information in a compliant fashion. At this point it depends rather on your data flow and processes.

[Jenda]

If you need the CSV info accessible to the programs you need to enclose the content in <[CDATA[...]]> to make sure the <, > and & characters do not break the XML, if you don't it would be best to use comments:

<!-- CVS
$Id: File_Find.pl,v 1.1 2006-12-17 19:25:03 eric Exp $
This That <[e-mail]>
Desc: Test file
-->
<root>
...