Phil -
You might want to look at XML::Simple. I get the impression XML::Parser is
the foundation of a _lot_ of XML code (including XML::Simple). XML::Simple
will load the XML into a data structure that looks a lot more like what you
probably want to massage with Perl. It goes to considerable lengths to
"normalize" the internal representation of XML, and you will find that they
don't call it "data reduction" for nothing. The things that XML::Simple
will lose for you include:
* The top-level pair of tags (but you can configure it to keep them)
* Text (or at least whitespace) which is not enclosed by the innermost set
of tags (e.g. the newline and two spaces before the <FamilySurname> tag in
your example.
* The order of duplicate tags (e.g. multiple <Member> tags).
* Some of its normalization obfuscates the difference between values and
attributes. This is a feature, and is to a certain extent configurable.
What I would recommend is write stub scripts to just load the XML, using
both XML::Parser and XML::Simple. Use Data::Dumper to dump the output, see
which output you like best, and go.
Tom Wyant
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