Extracting specific nodes from XML using XML::Twig
- by pratz
i was trying to extract a particular set of nodes from the following XML structure using XML::Twig, but have been stuck ever since. I need to extract the 'player' nodes from the following structure and do a string match/replace on each of these node values.
<pep:record>
<agency>
<subrecord type="scout">
<isnum>123XXX (print)</isnum>
<isnum>234YYY (mag)</isnum>
</subrecord>
<subrecord type="group">
</subrecord>
</agency
</record>
I tried using the following code, but I get pointed to a hash reference rather than actual string.
my $parser = XML::Twig->new(twig_handlers => {
isnum => sub { print $_->text."::" },
});
foreach my $rec (split(/::/, $parser->parse($my_xml))) {
if ($rec =~ m/print/) {
($print = $rec) =~ s/( \(print\))//;
}
elsif($rec =~ m/mag/) {
($mag = $rec) =~ s/( \(mag\))//;
}
}
