On Jun 25, 3:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Blezien) wrote:
> I need to parse a fairly largeXMLresponse file and would like some suggestions
> on whichXMLmodule would work the best. We've been using theXML::Simple
> module, but I don't think that's the right one for the job. Below is theXML
> file we need to parse. In particular getting the data from the elements within
> the <message></message>
> Would theXML::Twigmodule work better for this ?? Any suggestion would be much
> appreciated.
Hi Mike,
XML::Twig would probably work fine, you can for example do
XML::Twig->new( twig_roots => { message => sub { push @messages, $_-
>text; $_->purge;}, },)
->parsefile( 'file.xml');
message texts will be in @messages
If you need more information than just the text of the message
elements, then you can use twig_handlers instead of
twig_roots, look at the docs for the difference.
That said if the files are the size of your example, that's really
small, so there should be no need to switch from a module that
loads the entire file in memory. OTOH if message elements can contain
mixed content (embedded markup like <b> for example),
then that would be a reason to avoid XML::Simple.
I hope that helps.
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mirod
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