I'm trying to use XML to organize my Web bookmarks. The first structure that comes to my mind is something similar to:

<bookmark>

<link category="Perl" name="Perlmonks" url="http://www.perlmonks.org">
<description>Perl Monastery</description>
</link>

<link category="Perl" name="Perl.com" url="http://www.perl.com">
<description>Perl Official Site</description>
</link>

<link category="Macintosh" name="Macity" url="http://www.macity.it">
<description>Macintosh news site (italian resource)</description>
</link>

</bookmark>
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It's link-oriented, so when I want to add another link to the file I can simply use another <link> block filling it with the appropriata informations. So far so good.

Now I'd like to use these XML file to produce a tree of HTML pages containing my links organized by category. What I have to do is to convert a link-oriented structure to a category-oriented one.

I wrote this piece of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;

use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $bookmark = XMLin( './links.xml' );
# print Dumper( $bookmark );


# Data structure conversion

my $bookmark_by_category = {};
foreach my $n (keys %{$bookmark->{link}}) {

    push @{ $bookmark_by_category->{ $bookmark->{link}->{$n}->{'catego
+ry'} }}, {
 'Name' => $n,
 'Url' => $bookmark->{link}->{$n}->{'url'},
 'Description' => $bookmark->{link}->{$n}->{'description'},
    };
}

print Dumper( $bookmark_by_category );
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It is simple but since:

1. I'm new to XML manipulation
2. It seems to me it's a standard problem so I guess there's a standard solution
3. I don't want to pollute the environment with re-invented wheels...

I ask you if there's that standard solution I was talking about above.

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