On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mike Blezien <mick...@frontiernet.net>wrote:
> were using the XML/Simple module to process a XML response using the code
> below. But for some reason the module can't read the $xmlresponse data
> unless we create a temp file first to store the data then pass that to the
> module. Is there a way to do this without having to create a temp file
> first. ?? Everything does work, the response is return. We used the
> Data/Dumper module to verify the data first.
>
> =========================================================
> my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
> $ua->timeout(10);
> $ua->agent("HTTP/1.1");
> my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST' => "$xmlscript";
> $req->content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
> $req->content($xmlrequest);
> my $res = $ua->request($req);
>
> my $error = $res->is_error();
> my $success = $res->is_success();
>
> # Data returned in XML Format
> my $xmlresponse = $res->content();
>
> my $simple = new XML::Simple(KeyAttr=>[]);
> # read XML file
> my $xmldata = $simple->XMLin("$xmlresponse");
> # can't read the response in this manner
> ===================================================
>
Try the "parse_string" method instead. The documentation says that XMLin
guesses based on the presence of "<" and ">" characters. It appears that
XMLin guesses wrong in your case.
"parse_string" explicitly expects an XML string. So there's no logic to
confuse.
--
Robert Wohlfarth
