Re: XML::Simple help

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 18:30 -0700, geek.shrek wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to extract an element value by using XML Simple
> 
> Here's my input xml
> 
> <Library>
>      <book>
>             <id>1</id>
>             <name>ABC</name>
>      </book>
>      <book>
>             <id>2</id>
>             <name>ABC123</name>
>      </book>
>      <book>
>             <id>3</id>
>             <name>ABCDEF</name>
>      </book>
> </Library>
> 
> 
> I'm trying to get the name of id "1"
> 
> my $LibList = XMLin('library.xml', forcearray=>1, keyattr => ['id']);

The problem is the forcearray=>1.  If you want to use that option you
should give it a list of the elements which should be forced to arrays
because you don't usually want it to apply to all elements.

But really, you'd be better off using a different module.  Check out
this article:

  http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=490846

Cheers
Grant

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