Re: XML::Parser, regex, or ??

I must be doing something wrong. It might have to do with the way I am
trying to do the input. Sorry if my code is totally ridiculous. I am
quite a beginner. Here is my code so far:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use LWP;


my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $response =
$ua->get('http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/musicplayerxml.ashx?b=79777730');

my $content = $response->content;

# use module
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

# create object
$xml = new XML::Simple;

print "Content-Type: application/xml\n\n";

# read XML file
$data = $xml->XMLin($content);

# print output
print Dumper($data);


Where am I going wrong? Thank you so much for your help. :o )

Sarah


DJ Stunks wrote:
Sarah wrote:
Hi -

Hi!

I want to go to a certain .ashx
url and pull out the the number that appears in the CDATA between
<totalplays> and </totalplays>. Should I be using XML::Parser or
should I be figureing out a regular expression for this?

whenever possible I suggest using XML::Simple over XML::Parser. Only
if you need stream based (rather than tree based) processing, or if you
need more power over how the parser operates should you go with the
more complex XML::Parser.

one should almost never try to write a regular expression to parse XML
or HTML.

The source code for the .ashx page I am trying to parse is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<profile>
<timestamp><![CDATA[1165003930]]></timestamp>
<name><![CDATA[Omaha]]></name>
<playstoday><![CDATA[0]]></playstoday>
<downloadedtoday><![CDATA[0]]></downloadedtoday>
<totalplays><![CDATA[8272]]></totalplays>
<autoplay><![CDATA[2]]></autoplay>
<allowadd><![CDATA[1]]></allowadd>
<playlist><song bsid="21773411" title="Unappreciated" songid="11709799"
plays="364" comments="11709799" rate="11709799" downloadable=""
imagename="http://www.someurl.jpg"; imagedesc="Cherish -
Unappreciated&lt;br&gt;2006 Capitol"
filename="iQpqKbTHhxD6nnHTrMXKEYM0J+g5udpwP8TiHpkg4xXP59oqhpc44q3oVL6NUdd+q1YOYVTx2Qw8Qj67R0lDPUaLwX+/eByv/EWxtcUe7wg="
url="http://www.someurl.ashx?i=MIGdBgorBgEEAYI3WAOkoIGOMIGLBgorBgEEAYI3WAMBoH0wewIDAgABAgJmAwICAMAECB5NzL5vs%2bPgBBBi3gOcOpyzL7dNA7PUPXBlBFCL9Gcb%2f4U7Y1f4wRMr4zD4MfmxUXeJkKIa06IsC4lz2GBvWsse3T0%2fOGioo6odeaaA09%2bYX%2bKeX4lpzlqSVJeIHZACWTuYY03Sm09Arc7eUw%3d%3d";
lyrics="" purl="" durl="http://www.someurl.mp3";
token="0Q+uaMY0E0C9LlTFetCt3GyYf2O57O58XD//PBofNqPdA/NWnX+8joBR/QeIeeO+44EX5+N85zNkodtckgWsYRRVd6/M34v/KI27it1jaPw="/>
</playlist>
</profile>

XML::Simple will pull the information from this source without any
problems whatsoever.

good luck. re-post if you need more clarification.

-jp

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