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XML parsing and Listsby madbee (Acolyte) |
on Jul 04, 2013 at 23:31 UTC ( [id://1042546]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
madbee has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Hello! I'm trying to parse an XML file, sample of which is below.
I am using: XML::LibXML for parsing this. I can easily get the entire section of lists. However, my problem is I just need to know how many LIST elements are there. One way I was thinking is: 1. Parse the xml for the sec4. store contents in array 2. Loop through array until I get the first LIST element. Track counter; 3. Increment counter for each LIST element found until the last LIST element is reached. While this approach may work, I feel this is very kludgy. So I am looking to see if there is an elegant way I can count the number of list elements in a section The challenge ofcourse is that not every XML file I am parsing has the exact same structure. There could be variations where the <P1> This is the criteria</P1> may not exist before the start of the list. Hoping someone here has some thoughts on how best I can capture the count of list elements Sadly, I cannot use XPath here since I have an entire piece of code built around LibXML parsing. Also I'm having an Xpath installation nightmare which I just cannot get past. Thanks so much in advance. Regards,Madbee
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