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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How do I encode key-value pairs using Perl's XML::Simple module?
I have a hash of the form
my $hash = {
'Key' => "ID1",
'Value' => "SomeProcess"
};
I need to convert this to an XML fragment of the form
Some Process a
Some Process b …
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XML SIMPLE PERL - Looping through child nodes problem
I have some perl code
my $res = $ua->get( $access->to_url );
if ($res->is_success) {
my $ref = XMLin( $res->content );
my $xml = new XML::Simple;
$data = $xml->XMLin($res->content,ForceArray => 1);
#print $res->content;
for my…
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XML::Simple convert xml to perl hash warning "non-unique value"
I have a well formed XML that I'm trying to convert to a hash with perl module XML::Simple. There are some section in this file which cannot be parsed correctly. Is there any way (or a workaround) to get the xml parsed correctly and get the desired…
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How can XmlSimple output XML just like data.to_xml?
Can XmlSimple.xml_out output XML the same way to_xml does? (instead of attributes, use tags):
> puts XmlSimple.xml_out([{'a' => 1, 'b' => 3.3}])
> puts ([{:a => 1, :b => 3.3}].to_xml)
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Perl XML::Simple Inconsistent behavior
I am reading XML file using XML::Simple
However, I am facing a rather "odd" situation wherein XML::Simple is behaving inconsistently across hosts
I can best guess that the shell has some role to play - but I can't be sure as I didn't find any such…
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Getting elements from XML file in Perl
I have a file on a server that I want to parse in Perl. I've tried it with XML:Simple and XML:LibXML and I can't get the xml elements in both cases.
This is my .xml file:
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Sorting XML elements by their attribute values
I have the following XML
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Get the attribute by topic->icon_id
I'm trying to show the topic icon by xml.
How can I get the icon from the right icon id. Now he is always loading id 0.
Thank you for the help.
I tried and searched suggested examples, but no luck.
xml:
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ruby gem xml-simple: same output for different input
I'm struggling with the xml-simple (1.1.5) gem.
This is my input in test.xml:
<br/>X
X<br/>X
X<br/>
Now see what happens using irb as follows:
$ irb -rxmlsimple -rpp
>> pp…
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XMLin with strings containing invalid xml characters
I am using XML::Simple in one of my perl scripts to extract some messages, problem is I am getting this error :
No semi-colon found after entity name [Ln: 1, Col: 151]
when I use XMLin( $msg ) and $msg contains an invalid character like '&'
I know…
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Referencing top level of xml object using xml::simple in perl
Been banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out. Just trying to put together a script that will eventually link together various components of these game files (like for a wiki). I'm sure this is a simple matter of not doing the…
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Is there any way to have XML::Simple output CDATA?
If I'm on a system with just XML::Simple installed, and I'm reading a database to output an XML representation of some of it, and some of that data has HTML code which needs to be surrounded by the CDATA tag... is that possible?
I really don't want…
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Filter Simple-XML Output in ruby
I'm absolutely new to ruby and I'm trying to parse an XML structure and
filter it for some attributes. The XML looks like this:
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Trouble with a one-node XML file in Perl
I have many multi-node XML files that I'm parsing with XML::Simple. So far it works great. One of the first things I do is get the length of the XML file (node count) using this:
my $xmltemp = XML::Simple->new(
SuppressEmpty => 1
);
my $product…
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Parsing XML file to count tag occurrence using XML::Simple
I'm attempting to parse an XML file using XML::Simple in order to count the occurrence of specific tags(i.e. the occurrence of different city locations specific to a title that gets repeated throughout the file in order to do further analysis on the…
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