I know this is not exactly the right mailing list etc but from the mails on it I suspect someone here knows the answer...
I'm looking for an idiots guide to XML parsing in perl as I'm an idiot and I need to parse XML. I've read and only semi-understood the XML::Parser documentation and I was wondering if there was an equivalent to LWPcook for XML? The issue is that I mostly need to take large complex XML documents (produced by PubMed usually) and extract the interesting records/fields from them. In other words I don't really want to parse the entire XML tree I just want to extract 2 or 3 fields from each record (or annoyingly in some cases each sub-record). Clearly I can write a crude parser from scratch but thats a) ugly and b) probably unnecessary, but on the other hand XML::parser seems to be a bit of an overhead.... Thanks in advance for any help Francis -- Francis Turner, CIO Juelich Enzyme Products GmbH http://www.juelich-enzyme.com/ +49-173-291-7278 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Henry J. Tillman
