The "simple" libraries for working with XML in Ruby or Perl.
The Perl XML::Simple module or the XmlSimple Ruby gem.
Questions tagged [xml-simple]
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Why is XML::Simple Discouraged?
From the documentation of XML::Simple:
The use of this module in new code is discouraged. Other modules are available which provide more straightforward and consistent interfaces. In particular, XML::LibXML is highly recommended.
The major problems…
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XML::Parser refusing to install
I've been trying to install XML::Simple on Ubuntu 12.10 for the past two hours or so and have officially run out of ideas. It's failing at the XML::Parser.
I've done an
sudo apt-get install expat
and it still did not work. Here's the error I've…
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XML::Simple output element order from complex hash
I have already seen few answers on various places, in regards to setting the order of XML elements being returned by XMLout. However, I am not able to solve a problem using those answers/examples.
I have a script that needs to output some XML data,…
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Perl xml simple for parsing node with the same name
I have the following xml file
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SimpleXML root node prefix php
I'm trying to create XML with php:
this is true XML
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'not well-formed' error using Perl XML::Simple
I am trying to run a Perl script to get all the elements of an xml document into an array. The code is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Script to illustrate how to parse a simple XML file
# and dump its contents in a Perl hash record.
use strict;
use…
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XML::Simple ignoring emdash tag?
I'm using XML Simple to parse an XML file, the problematic part looks like that:
<titlePart>
<text>SECTION A <emdash/> HUMAN NECESSITIES</text>
</titlePart>
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Does XML::Simple maintain order when using arrays?
I'm using XML::Simple to parse an XML file which I then want to use to write an output file in a very specific format. Thus, the output order is important.
As I understand it, when the XML is converted to the perl hashref the order is lost (because…
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Using xml::simple - unable to get specific format output
Input file :SN.xml
value1
I am using these code for…
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Perl XML-SAX-Expat external entity location
I am using XML-Simple along with XML-SAX-Expat to parse a document with external entities. I declare my entity like:
And I refer to from another file in the same directory.
However, it is searching my current…
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Case-sensitive XML parser for Ruby
I'm currently using XmlSimple in Ruby to convert XML to a hash using the xml_in method. Everything is really nice, except for the fact that the resulting hash keys are all lowercase, whereas the XML element names were mixed-case.
Here's an…
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printing XML array values
I'm trying to extract a small amount of data from an XML file into a csv file using perl and XML::Simple.
Here is an edited version of the data:
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Perl code for Find and replace a tag value in XML
Below is the XML I will be using:
ABC
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Is it possible to catch die messages that happen inside another perl module?
I have a SOAP client written in Perl using LWP package for the HTTPS transport and XML::Simple for the parsing of the XML payloads. From time to time the call to XMLin fails with a die() and then my script dies and has to be restarted by a…
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How do I access data in a nested data structure from XML::Simple?
I have to write a Perl script to convert an XML file into a CSV file. I've already written something simple in one context, and need to enhance it for a different dataset, and can't quite figure out what to do.
I'm using XML::Simple.
Here is one…
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