RE: Not an ARRAY reference. Problems reading a simple XML file

If you look at $data for the problem file its not an array at that point.
For a single element XML::Simple doesn't display your data in a list i.e.

With 1 element of record.

$VAR1 = {
'RECORD' => {
'COLLNAME' => 'FBIS2004',
'DOCI' => 'CP1'
}
};

With 2 elements of record.

$VAR1 = {
'RECORD' => [
{
'COLLNAME' => 'FBIS2004',
'DOCI' => 'CP1'
},
' BOOB'
]
};

So you cant do @{$data->{RECORD}} as it doesn't exist when there is only 1
element.
You can either test that its an arrayref or hashref or you could use
something like XML::Parser, Lib:XML

Etc...



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Adams [mailto:davidlamontadams@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 02 April 2007 15:15
To: beginners perl
Subject: Not an ARRAY reference. Problems reading a simple XML file

My script is having problems reading and XML file with only one record in
it. When I add two or more records, there are no problems. The error is
"Not and ARRAY reference.."

Here is the PROBLEM xml file (test.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <DATA> <RECORD>
<COLLNAME>FBIS2004</COLLNAME> <DOCI>CP1</DOCI> </RECORD> </DATA>


Here is the WORKING xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <DATA> <RECORD>
<COLLNAME>FBIS2004</COLLNAME> <DOCI>CP1</DOCI> </RECORD> <RECORD>
<COLLNAME>FBIS2005</COLLNAME> <DOCI>CP2</DOCI> </RECORD> </DATA>

Here is my script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

$xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);
$data = $xml->XMLin("test.xml");
#print Dumper($data);
print "There are " . scalar(@{$data->{RECORD}}) . " records.\n"; foreach my
$var (@{$data->{RECORD}}) { print $var->{DOCI} . "\n"; print
$var->{COLLNAME} . "\n"; }

Does anyone have an explaination for this?

Thanks in advance,
DA


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