Re: XML and representations

2010-01-30 Thread Rob Dixon
Hello Bruce Take a closer look at the docs, and try my $xml = XMLin($data, SuppressEmpty = undef); HTH, Rob Bruce Ferrell wrote: I have a wee problem I can seem to solve. I don't want to get into should XML::Simple be used, it's not relevant to my question... I don't think. Below is

Re: XML and representations

2010-01-30 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Thanks Rob, I'm glad you validated the solution I found. I figured out that if the empty tag was suppressed, I could test for the tag being present or not. Bruce On 01/30/2010 04:16 AM, Rob Dixon wrote: Hello Bruce Take a closer look at the docs, and try my $xml = XMLin($data,

Re: XML and representations

2010-01-30 Thread Rob Dixon
You misunderstand my solution Bruce. If you set the options as I described, you will have a hash element that looks like 'phone2' = undef instead of the awkward 'phone2' = {} This would be my preference instead of suppressing the empty element altogether, which leaves no indication at

XML and representations

2010-01-29 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Perl monks, I have a wee problem I can seem to solve. I don't want to get into should XML::Simple be used, it's not relevant to my question... I don't think. Below is some very simple XML and below that the output after passing it through Dumper. As you can see phone2 is a blank tag (no

Re: XML and representations

2010-01-29 Thread Jim Gibson
On 1/29/10 Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:34 PM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org scribbled: Perl monks, I have a wee problem I can seem to solve. I don't want to get into should XML::Simple be used, it's not relevant to my question... I don't think. Below is some very simple XML and below that