I've taken to liking Twig. http://www.xmltwig.com/
But you can start off with something else while you're trying to figure stuff out... XML::Simple works for playing around... Here's an XML/Perl Quick start http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/18/perlxmlqstart1.html This page gives you links that are handy: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/spasystem/twig/perl_xml/perl_xml.html Good luck, Mankins On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, rebbaj rebbaj wrote: > > I am trying to write a routine in Perl where I can send a iq roster request and then >parse through all the responses such that I can put them in an array. While I could >do this with a call such as "my $roster = $iq->GetXML()" followed by a bunch of >regular expressions, this seems painfull. > > I would like to populate a couple of parallel arrays such that they end up as >follows after having read back 4 returned roster items: > > @jids = ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > @name = (Joe, fred, Tim, Sue) > > @subscription = (both, both, from, to) > > @group = (work, work, friend, work) > > As I do not quite understand how the parsing would work, would someone mind doing a >quick posting of an example which would place all the jids, groupnames, etc in an >array? It is just not clear to me how I would structure the logic to do this with a >while... > > Thanks, > > Rebbaj _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
