Re: questions on XML::Simple

Ben Morrow <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quoth Jeff <dreamgear@xxxxxxxxx>:
I used the XML::Simple module to read some xml, which works great.

But when I write it back out with XMLout.. it's changed.

For example the input that looks like this:

<Summary>
<TotalOrders>1</TotalOrders>
<TotalLineItems>4</TotalLineItems>
<TotalQuantity>158</TotalQuantity>
</Summary>

ends up looking like this:

<Summary TotalLineItems="4" TotalOrders="1" TotalQuantity="158" />


Is it possible to have it written out in the same format it was read
from?

See the NoAttr option.

Use ForceArray when doing XMLin. I think this would be better than
using NoAttr on XMLout. With ForceArray things that were attributes on the
way in are still attributes on the way out, while tags on the way in are
tags on the way out--rather than turning everything into tags.

Xho

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