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techie411 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to add elements to XML using XML::LibXML. I know how to add elements, but I'm having a hard time trying to go to lower levels of the elements. For instance:

---- ORIGINAL FILE ----
<dict> <key>TEST1</key> <key>TEST2</key> <string>en</string> <key>TEST3</key> </dict>
---- RESULTS I WANT ----
<dict> <key>ADDKEY</key> <array> <dict> <key>SAMPLEKEY</key> <array> <string>STRING</string> </array> </dict> </array> <key>TEST1</key> <string>en</string> <key>TEST2</key> </dict>
I'd also like to add it before the TEST1 key. The results I get from below is that it appends it to the end of the 'dict' element.

---- WHAT I HAVE SO FAR ----
use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML; # load open my $fh, '<', 'test.xml'; binmode $fh; # drop all PerlIO layers possibly created by a use open + pragma my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml(IO => $fh); my $root=$doc->getDocumentElement(); # Grabs the 'dict' element my $rootElement = pop(@{$root>getElementsByTagName('dict')}); my $keyElement= $doc->createElement("key"); $keyElement->appendText('Test'); $rootElement->appendChild($keyElement); # save open my $out, '>', 'out.xml'; binmode $out; $doc->toFH($out);