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Questions tagged [xml-libxml]
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XML::LibXML issue finding XML nodes with a namespace
I am writing an XML parser and am having an issue with the program handling a link. I am attempting to parse an XML hierarchy Settings/Setting then findnode 'Value'. The following is an example of the XML:
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XML::LibXML::Reader need warn on schema errors instead of exit
Basically I need to use the schema option from the perl module XML::libXML::Reader in order to validate a large (>1GB) XML file as the file is parsed.
Previously I have used the xmllint command to validate an XML file against a given schema (xsd)…
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dump XML::LibXML elements
I would like to dump the xml doc tree similar to the way perl data types can be dumped.
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($foo);
Recursivly dumps the structure contained by $foo (even if there are cyclic dependencies).
However
use XML::LibXML;
my…
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How to prevent XML::LibXML to save modified xml using self-closing tag
The following working code reads my XML file containing lots of empty elements, then applies 2 changes and saves it again under different name.
But it also changes empty elements like
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Perl .bundle files
On my OSX machine, deep within a jungle of lib directories, I was able to see this
-r-xr-xr-x 1 user users 45700 Feb 01 1:47 LibXSLT.bundle*
1) What are these .bundle files ?
2) Who creates them ? CPAN modules ?
3) If so, then can we control its…
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Validating XML in Perl with libxml and an XSD file
I am trying to have my perl script get an Xxml file from online and validate it according to an XSD file.
The code to do this is as follows:
my $url = shift @ARGV;
my $response = $ua->get($url) || die "Can't fetch file";
my $file =…
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XML removeChild, but out output has a blank row
Simple removeChild test, although the xml line is removed, it maintains an empty blank row, how come? Btw - my source xml file does have indents, however even when I remove them I get the same result. So what's the point of being able to…
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Unregister namespaces in scope of context node
I am using XML::LibXML. In creating an XPath context, I need to be able to specify exactly which namespaces are available. However, all of the namespaces in the scope of the context node are automatically registered with the XPathContext object. I…
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Find value of child node
Ok, this is a pretty rudimentary question, but I'm new to Perl and I honestly can't seem to find the answer anywhere, even though I'm sure it will be ridiculously simple.
Let's say I have the following XML schema:
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How do I use XML::LibXML to parse XML using SAX?
The only example code I have found so far is so old it won't work anymore (uses deprecated classes). All I need is something basic that demonstrates:
Loading and parsing the XML from a file
Defining the SAX event handler(s)
Reading the attributes…
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Perl using XML Path Context to extract out data
I have the following xml
and I want the attributes…
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Using XML::LibXML in Perl to alter XML file: newline chars are Unix, not Windows
Dear Perl and XML gurus
I have a task to update values inside XML file using XPath.
I use XML::LibXML library in Perl to read, alter and save XML file:
# Read XML file
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->load_xml(location =>…
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How to add Child and Grandchild XML tags by XML::LibXML?
I'm trying to make a simple XML file and add Child and Grandchild XML tags by XML::LibXML.
I made country and location tags as below, but I want to add child and grandchild tags under country and location tags such as value . How do I add…
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How to add newline for each XML output?
I'm trying to add newlines to each <> line in the XML output of XML::LibXML
from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2934794/19508169.
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::LibXML;
my $doc = XML::LibXML::Document->new('1.0', 'utf-8');
my $root =…
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