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The "simple" libraries for working with XML in Ruby or Perl.

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How to build a hashref with arrays in perl?

I am having trouble building what i think is a hashref (href) in perl with XML::Simple. I am new to this so not sure how to go about it and i cant find much to build this href with arrays. All the ...
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Parsing a XML file with Perl XMLSimple

I'm trying to parse a XML-like file with the following structure: Edit: I tried to omit most of the huge xml file to simplify everything but c/p-ed wrongly. Here's the full file (900kb!) that ...
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XML::Simple - How to fix that the same xml structure results in 2 different Perl data structures, depending on amount of members/syblings?

I am new to XML::Simple (and also not very keen in xml). I want to use it for parsing a simple xml structure that I get as result of an API. I do not have any influence on the xml I get. When the ...
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How to parse XML with Mechanize and XMLSimple in ruby?

I'm trying to fetch a remote XML file with Mechanize to get icecast status information. But I'm having problems to pass the XML file from Mechanize::File format to string or some XML format which ...
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perl, parsing XML using XML::Simple

I'm doing something wrong when parsing XML. Somehow I has to iterate two loops, where only one should be needed. What am I doing wrong here? First the xml data: <fishy> <fish ...
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The xml attribute “id” seems to be a protected attribute. What config needed to be able to set it?

I am using the perl module XML::Simple to create an XML structure. Everything works fine except that the string "<tag1 id="5"> ABC </tag1>" looks like <tag1 name="5"> ABC ...
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forcing single quotes on XMLout()

Is there an easy way to force XMLout() of XML::Simple to use single quotes instead of double quotes for the attributes? I didn't find an according option (or I missed it...). <Object Alias="12345" ...
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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 ...
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Using a : in a variable name in perl

I'm really new to perl and have an issue where I load in XML using XML::Simple and I have the tag names as hash names. I want to get at the hash stored with the name "xsd:schema" but obviously ...
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XmlSimple in ruby script is not building correctly the xml output file when a xml element has single structure

require 'rubygems' require 'xmlsimple' xml_contexts = Array.new Dir["#{ENV['ALGO_TOP']}/active.????????.????"].each do |context| context_id_ = File.basename(context) puts %Q< Processing context ...
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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: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ...
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Perl XML::Simple write Directory

Hy, i want to write all files within a directory and all sub-directories to an associative array and create a XML from this aray. here is my code. use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; use ...
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xmlsimple / picasa on rails error after upgrade to rails 3.2.3

ArgumentError in GraphicsController#index Could not find <rails.xml> in <script> Rails.root: /Users/****/*****/rails/***** Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace xml-simple ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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