Thanks Shawn/Rob! I'll give a try now. one more thing, anyway to convert these parsed output to html format directly with the help another module?
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shawn H Corey > Sent: 04/08/10 04:00 AM > To: Robert Wohlfarth > Subject: Re: XML Parsing/Modules > Robert Wohlfarth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Open Source <open.sou...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> I'm new to perl and I need to parse an file which contains both structured >> and unstructured XML messages. Can someone help me to understand how to >> parse XML files/data into either simple readable or html format? I'm not >> sure how to proceed like which module I've have to use etc. any pointers >> would be much appreciated. >> > > I've used XML::Parser <http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/Parser.pm> to > do simple things. The documentation is here: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/Parser.pm. > There are a number of XML parsers available on CPAN http://search.cpan.org/ The two most commonly use are: XML::Simple http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.18/lib/XML/Simple.pm XML::LibXML http://search.cpan.org/~pajas/XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.pod Others are: XML::Twig http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-Twig-3.34/Twig_pm.slow XML::SAX http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-SAX-0.96/SAX.pm XML::DOM http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/XML-DOM-1.44/lib/XML/DOM.pm All of these except XML::LibXML are built on top of XML::Parser. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
