merging XML file

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Dears I would like to merge few xml file in a simple way.

xml file 1
<head>
<t> 1 </t>
<t> 15 </t>
<t> 17 </t>
</head>

xml file 2
<head>
<t> 26 </t>
<t> 19 </t>
<t> 0 </t>
</head>

merged file:
<head>
<t> 1 </t>
<t> 15 </t>
<t> 17 </t>
<t> 26 </t>
<t> 19 </t>
<t> 0 </t>
</head>
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which method is the fastest and easier? which xml module would be suggested?

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Re: merging XML file by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 04, 2009 at 14:23 UTC
Please see Concatenating XML files, I found the answers quite helpful. It won't get you there to 100%, but it'll show you how similar things are done with various XML modules.	[reply]
Re: merging XML file by linuxer (Curate) on Apr 04, 2009 at 16:07 UTC
My CPAN search for `xml merge` revealed a module XML::Merge. Maybe that can be helpful in your case?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: merging XML file by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 04, 2009 at 15:50 UTC
moritzs suggestion apart (I haven't yet been to have a look), it looks (from slightly sparse evidence) like you want a simple merge of 2 (or maybe more) XML files, so why not ... Read each file into its own hash (using `XMLin()` from XML::Simple, Merge all the input hashes Finally, write the resultant hash using `XMLout()` (again from XML::Simple). Assuming, of course, that the combined size of the input XML files isn't huge (and thus likely to cause the process to run out of memory). A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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