xml-simple

How do I access deep data in a nested XML structure in Perl using XML::Simple?

I am using XML::Simple and I have the following XML structure in a variable $xmldata which I need to access through Perl code. <root> <a>sfghs</a> <b>agaga</b> <c> <c1>sgsfs</c1> <c2>sgsrsh</c2> </c> <d> <d1>agaga</d1> <d2>asgsg</d2> </d> </root> I can access the value of a and b b...

How can I convert JSON boolean values for output using XMLout?

There are boolean values in the JSON data structure I am using. When call decode_json to convert it to a Perl data structure and feed to the XMLout function provided by XML::Simple, it throws an error because XMLout does not know how to deal with JSON::XS::Boolean values. Is there a way to convert the JSON::XS::Boolean values in a data ...

How can I extract values from the XML::Simple's data structure?

I'm trying to figure out how to parse the <current></current> values from the first 2 (37% and 61.8F) in this XML. I can't figure it out since it seems that they have the same field names and are all under 'sensor'... any help would be appreciated... Code in Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; use LWP::Simple; $...

aws-s3 can't find xml-simple, but in gem list

I'm transitioning to heroku, and need to have AWS-s3 connections to deal with a variety of graphics. I've installed the aws-s3 gem, but one of its dependencies is not being found: xml-simple. My belief is that this is a standard part of RoR, and it is in the gem list. When I deploy to heroku, all is fine, but on my development server, i...

How can I use XML::Simple to configure HTML::FormFu?

I assume you can use XML::Simple with HTML::FormFu because FromFu uses Config::Any to load it's config data. However, I can't seem to find any sample xml configs being used with HTML::FormFu. Not only am I getting an error. I'm not sure my xml is structured correctly to create the desired form. For example, on options, formfu wants an a...

How to parse multi record XML file ues XML::Simple in Perl

Hello. My data.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <catalog> <cd country="UK"> <title>Hide your heart</title> <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist> <price>10.0</price> </cd> <cd country="CHN"> <title>Greatest Hits</title> <artist>Dolly Parton</artist> <price>9.99</price> </cd> <cd country="USA"> ...

Perl Object to XML Using XML::Simple

I'm attempting to use the XML::Simple CPAN module to convert output from our database into a simple XML structure. The problem is that the output being returned isn't what I was hoping for no matter what options I attempt to pass to XML::Simple. The database table we're trying to output is just a bunch of items with the definition: CRE...

Parsing <first_name>João</first_name> with xml-simple

I am using the xml-simple gem inside a rake task to parse the contents of a db dump. The problem is that the database xml file contains characters like those in the title that causes xml-simple to crash. Is there a work around to this? ...