RE: RE: XML::Parser

[ivey]

well...no. the difference is that i don't want to define a name for each level...there may be many levels. so, i might have

<section name="top">
  <section name="chap1"/>
  <section name="chap2">
    <section name="sub1"/>
  </section>
  <section name="chap3"/>
  <section name="chap4">
    <section name="sub2">
      <section name="table1"/>
    </section>
  </section>
</section>

my problem is, in the Handlers definition, how keep a relationship between my "current root section" (ie, the one to which i will be adding the next subsection) and the xml level?

--
michael d. ivey, [e-mail]

[btrott]

You can keep a stack of the current level where you are in the XML file. When you get a start tag, push the tag onto the stack; when you get to the end of that tag, pop the tag off the stack. You can use this to define a tree structure of sorts.

Another option would be to use the "Tree" Style of XML::Parser. Read the docs for that.

A final option, and a good one, is to use XML::Simple, which may work for you:

    use XML::Simple;
    XMLin("foo.xml");

It loads the data into a tree structure, which may or may not work exactly how you want it.

Or (finally again) you could look into some of the other tree-processing XML modules, like XML::DOM and XML::Twig. They may be overkill for your purposes, though.

[Adam]

I didn't know you could do that. I've not done much with XML.