Re^2: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing.

[choroba]

Can you be more specific? Are you talking about escaping control characters? Is your example correct?

use XML::LibXML;
$s = "&ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>";
print "before: $s.\n";
$dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => "<root/>");
$dom->findnodes("/root")->[0]->appendText($s);
print $dom->serialize;
$s2 = $dom->findnodes("//text()")->[0]->data;
print "after: $s2.\n";

Output:

before: &ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>&amp;ltfoo name=bobby&gt;&amp;ltname&amp;gtrobert&lt;/name&gt;&l
+t;/foo&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</root>
after: &ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>.

[pileofrogs]

I probably should have put that in code tags instead of using all those &lt, &gt. Sorry.

<foo name=bobby><name>robert</name></foo>

My point is, your foo has two names.

<foo name=bobby><age>27</age></foo>

Also sucks. It's no different from

<foo age=27><name>bobby</name></foo>

Obviously it's different, but not in a truly meaningful way. You could just as easily say

<foo age=27 name=bobby></foo>

or

<foo><age>27</age><name>bobby</name></foo>

[choroba]

I got it. From this point of view, you are right. You did not mention

<foo>
  <name>Robert</name>
  <name>Bobby</name>
</foo>

But you can view it inside out: data types suck, because they cannot easilly represent XML :-)

[pileofrogs]

++

Good point! Very Zen.