Hi, Thanx for the replies. At the moment I am testing the water so I am using Activestate 5.8. All I have done with XML::Simple is below.
============= xml-parse.pl ========= #!/bin/perl use strict; use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; my $file = shift; # Doesn't like this. #my $file = "section-xml"; # or this. my $config = XMLin('c:\\windows\\desktop\\section-xml'); print Dumper($config); =============================== I get the error: junk after document element at line 65, column 0, byte 1993 at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 185. The records are pasted at the end of this mail. I seem to have a bit of trouble getting XML::Simple to accept the file option, for instance $config("$file") does seem to work for me and I have to give it a literal path but that is a small problem. Line 65 is the start of the second record ("<record>") but I don't know why it is choking on it. I have had a paw through the perldoc for xml-simple but I can't see an obvious option that will help me although I think there probably is. I had began to roll my own, it does work albeit it doesn't look so pretty but I would rather use a module as everyone seems to agree this is the best way to go. So why is XML::Simple choking on the end of the record at line 65? Do I need to define the record separator? Thanx. Dp ============== records ============== <record> <CT.NUM>S370/0128</CT.NUM> <CT.DAT>03-Jun-05</CT.DAT> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.ORI>IN</CT.ORI> <CT.ALN>0</CT.ALN> <CT.UKN>0</CT.UKN> <CT.TI1>Apollo mission </CT.TI1> <CT.DSC>Apollo mission </CT.DSC> <CT.C01>CREDIT: NASA</CT.C01> <CT.C03>In December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene </CT.C03> <CT.C04>Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours </CT.C04> <CT.C05>on the moon, in the Taurus-Littrow valley, while </CT.C05> <CT.C06>colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. THe </CT.C06> <CT.C07>Apollo 17 crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock </CT.C07> <CT.C08>and soil samples, more than from any other lunar </CT.C08> <CT.C09>landing sites. And after thirty plus years, Cernan </CT.C09> <CT.C10>and Schmitt are still the last to walk on the </CT.C10> <CT.C11>Moon.</CT.C11> <CT.MBS>41</CT.MBS> <CT.COL></CT.COL> <CT.WPL></CT.WPL> <CT.SU1>SQUARE</CT.SU1> <CT.SU2>MOON LANDING</CT.SU2> <CT.SU3>ASTRONAUTS</CT.SU3> <CT.SU4>NASA</CT.SU4> <CT.SU5>LUNAR EXPLORATION</CT.SU5> <CT.SU6>SPACE PROGRAM</CT.SU6> <CT.SU7>SPACE</CT.SU7> <CT.SU8>MOON</CT.SU8> <CT.SU9>APOLLO 17</CT.SU9> <CT.SU10>RONALD EVANS</CT.SU10> <CT.SU11>EUGENE CERNAN</CT.SU11> <CT.SU12>EXPLORATION</CT.SU12> <CT.SU13>HARRISON SCHMITT</CT.SU13> <CT.SU14>MANNED</CT.SU14> <CT.SU15>SPACEFLIGHT</CT.SU15> <CT.SU16>SPACE</CT.SU16> <CT.SU17>APOLLO</CT.SU17> <CT.SU18>PROGRAM</CT.SU18> <CT.SU19>PROGRAMME</CT.SU19> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.DUP></CT.DUP> <CT.PHO>XNS</CT.PHO> <PH.NAM>NASA</PH.NAM> <RS.CY2>* UK</RS.CY2> <RS.CY3>* EIRE</RS.CY3> <RS.CY4>* BAHRAIN</RS.CY4> <RS.CY5>* EGYPT</RS.CY5> <RS.CY6>* HONG KONG</RS.CY6> <RS.CY7>* ICELAND</RS.CY7> <RS.CY8>* MALAYSIA</RS.CY8> <RS.CY9>* SINGAPORE</RS.CY9> <RS.CY10>* SAUDI ARABIA</RS.CY10> <RS.CY11>* SOUTH AFRICA</RS.CY11> <RS.CY12>* TAIWAN</RS.CY12> <RS.CY13>* THAILAND</RS.CY13> <RS.CY14>* UNITED ARAB EMIRATES</RS.CY14> <CT.PSD></CT.PSD> <CT.PSI></CT.PSI> <CT.REF>AV120A</CT.REF> <CT.FOR></CT.FOR> <CT.DFM></CT.DFM> </record> <record> <CT.NUM>S375/0045</CT.NUM> <CT.DAT>22-Oct-92</CT.DAT> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.ORI>IN</CT.ORI> <CT.ALN>10</CT.ALN> <CT.UKN>4</CT.UKN> <CT.TI1> </CT.TI1> <CT.DSC>Night launch of Apollo</CT.DSC> <CT.C01>CREDIT: NASA</CT.C01> <CT.C03>Launch of Apollo 17. The Saturn V rocket carrying </CT.C03> <CT.C04>Apollo 17 blasts into the night sky at Cape </CT.C04> <CT.C05>Canaveral on 7 December 1972. This was the only </CT.C05> <CT.C06>night launch of the Apollo Lunar programme. Apollo </CT.C06> <CT.C07>17 carried astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison </CT.C07> <CT.C08>Schmitt to the Moon, Ronald Evans remaining in the </CT.C08> <CT.C09>command module in lunar orbit. Cernan and Schmitt </CT.C09> <CT.C10>landed in the Taurus-Littrow region on 11 December </CT.C10> <CT.C11>and left on 13 December. Cernan was the last man </CT.C11> <CT.C12>to stand on the Moon's surface. Apollo 17 returned </CT.C12> <CT.C13>to Earth on 19 December 1972 - the end of manned </CT.C13> <CT.C14>Lunar exploration for the time being.</CT.C14> <CT.MBS>46</CT.MBS> <CT.COL>C</CT.COL> <CT.WPL></CT.WPL> <CT.SU1>APOLLO 17, LAUNCH, NIGHT</CT.SU1> <CT.SU2>SATURN V, LAUNCH, APOLLO 17</CT.SU2> <CT.SU3>ROCKET</CT.SU3> <CT.SU4>MANNED SPACEFLIGHT, SPACE</CT.SU4> <CT.SU5>APOLLO PROGRAM, PROGRAMME</CT.SU5> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.DUP>13</CT.DUP> <CT.PHO>NAS</CT.PHO> <PH.NAM>NASA</PH.NAM> <CT.PSD></CT.PSD> <CT.PSI></CT.PSI> <CT.REF>S72-55070</CT.REF> <CT.FOR>8x10 print</CT.FOR> <CT.DFM></CT.DFM> </record> <record> <CT.NUM>S380/0286</CT.NUM> <CT.DAT>03-Jun-05</CT.DAT> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.ORI>IN</CT.ORI> <CT.ALN>0</CT.ALN> <CT.UKN>0</CT.UKN> <CT.TI1>Apollo 14 lunar central station</CT.TI1> <CT.DSC>Apollo 14 lunar central station</CT.DSC> <CT.C01>CREDIT: NASA</CT.C01> <CT.C03>East and north sides of the Central Station, with </CT.C03> <CT.C04>good definition of the astronaut switches at the </CT.C04> <CT.C05>bottom. Apollo 14 was the third mission in which </CT.C05> <CT.C06>humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to </CT.C06> <CT.C07>Earth. On 5 February 1971 two astronauts (Apollo </CT.C07> <CT.C08>14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. and LM pilot </CT.C08> <CT.C09>Edgar D. Mitchell) landed near Fra Mauro crater on </CT.C09> <CT.C10>the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the </CT.C10> <CT.C11>Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot </CT.C11> <CT.C12>Stuart A. Roosa) continued in lunar orbit. During </CT.C12> <CT.C13>their stay on the Moon, the astronauts set up </CT.C13> <CT.C14>scientific experiments, took photographs, and </CT.C14> <CT.C15>collected lunar samples. The LM took off from the </CT.C15> <CT.C16>Moon on 6 February and the astronauts returned to </CT.C16> <CT.C17>Earth on 9 February.</CT.C17> <CT.MBS>48</CT.MBS> <CT.COL></CT.COL> <CT.WPL></CT.WPL> <CT.SU1>PORTRAIT</CT.SU1> <CT.SU2>SPACE</CT.SU2> <CT.SU3>LUNAR EXPERIMENTS</CT.SU3> <CT.SU4>APOLLO 14</CT.SU4> <CT.SU5>MOON</CT.SU5> <CT.SU6>LUNAR EXPERIMENT</CT.SU6> <CT.SU7>NASA</CT.SU7> <CT.SU8>SPACE PROGRAM</CT.SU8> <CT.SU9>MANNED</CT.SU9> <CT.SU10>SPACEFLIGHT</CT.SU10> <CT.SU11>SPACE</CT.SU11> <CT.SU12>APOLLO</CT.SU12> <CT.SU13>PROGRAM</CT.SU13> <CT.SU14>PROGRAMME</CT.SU14> <CT.UPD>03-Jun-05</CT.UPD> <CT.DUP></CT.DUP> <CT.PHO>XNS</CT.PHO> <PH.NAM>NASA</PH.NAM> <RS.CY2>* UK</RS.CY2> <RS.CY3>* EIRE</RS.CY3> <RS.CY4>* BAHRAIN</RS.CY4> <RS.CY5>* EGYPT</RS.CY5> <RS.CY6>* HONG KONG</RS.CY6> <RS.CY7>* ICELAND</RS.CY7> <RS.CY8>* MALAYSIA</RS.CY8> <RS.CY9>* SINGAPORE</RS.CY9> <RS.CY10>* SAUDI ARABIA</RS.CY10> <RS.CY11>* SOUTH AFRICA</RS.CY11> <RS.CY12>* TAIWAN</RS.CY12> <RS.CY13>* THAILAND</RS.CY13> <RS.CY14>* UNITED ARAB EMIRATES</RS.CY14> <CT.PSD></CT.PSD> <CT.PSI></CT.PSI> <CT.REF>AV064A</CT.REF> <CT.FOR></CT.FOR> <CT.DFM></CT.DFM> </record> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
