Is there any possible way to convert XML::Twig object to XML::XPath object

[rnd]

I'm using XML::XPath for a long time to parse xml, now the situation has come to modify the attribute value.

xml is available in a file, it will be very similar to this.

<AppName>

<Action AllDay='1'StartRace='1'/>

<StartPoint AM_PM='AM' Hours='09' Mins='30'/>

<EndPoint AM_PM='PM' Hours='06' Mins='30'/>

</AppName>

I have written a perl script to change the Hours of StartPoint tag,

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;

my $fileName = 'Conf.xml'

my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
    twig_roots => { StartPoint => \&ReplaceAtriValue },
    twig_print_outside_roots => 1,
);

sub ReplaceAtriValue {
    my ($twig, $startPoint) = @_;
    if ( '09' eq $startPoint->att('Hours') )
    {
        $startPoint->set_att( Hours => '12');
    }
    $startPoint->print();
}
$twig->parsefile($fileName);

Now $twig has the xml object. If I send this object($twig) to my SetWindow.pm which parse xml using XML::XPath, did not recognize $twig object.

Is there any possible way to convert XML::Twig object to XML::XPath object so that XML::XPath will parse values in the $twig object.

Actually I have using XML::XPath for long back hence I have to send the XML::XPath object to all my own *.pm like SetWindow.pm, at the same time i need to change the values of the attribute of the standard xml before sending to my own PMs.

Thanks in Advance

Any Help is much appreciated

[ikegami]

You want the resulting XML, not some twig. Instead of printing the resulting XML, place it in a variable.

[rnd]

Thanks for your reply ikegami.

I'm not sure how to assign a output of modified xml into a variable.

Actually 'twig_print_outside_roots => 1,' prints the output in command prompt. I don't know how to redirect the root output to a variable.

[mirod]

You can open a filehandle on a variable: my $s; open my $fh, ">", \$s; print {$fh} "this goes in the string";, and send the output of twig_print_outside_roots to it by writing twig_print_outside_roots => $fh.

It is still a bad idea though. Why use 2 different XML modules when one could work?

[Anonymous Monk]

No.