XML::Simple question

[mgp77]

Hello,

I was wondering, is there anyway to have the XML::Simple module ignore tag attributes when reading in an XML file. Also is there anyway to tell the module to only parse out a certain subset of tags? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks

 

[rharsh]

From the XML::Simple documentation:

NoAttr => 1 *# in+out - handy*
When used with "XMLout()", the generated XML will contain no attributes.
All hash key/values will be represented as nested elements instead.

When used with "XMLin()", any attributes in the XML will be ignored.

For your selective tag parsing question, I'm not sure XML::Simple can do that. Depending on how complicated your XML document is, it might not be too much work to build some custom handlers for XML:arser. Otherwise, you might want to take a look at the other XML modules on CPAN and find one that will do what you want.

 

[KevinADC]

he has this same question on a number of forums.

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[rharsh]

That figures.