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perl-xml
Re: Getting XML Nodes based on attributes value
by Robin Berjon other posts by this author
Sep 7 2005 5:08AM messages near this date
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Re: Getting XML Nodes based on attributes value | Re: Getting XML Nodes based on attributes value
& XSLT Hi,

Joseph C. Bautista wrote:
>     I was wondering if there's a module that i can used to get only the 
>  nodes in an XML file based on the attributes value?

The simplest thing to use would be either XML::LibXML or XML::XPath. In 
both you can use XPath to retrieve your nodes, which is a very powerful 
way of processing XML.

>    Example XML is:
>  
>     <Things>
>        <Object Class="Pens" Location="Room">
>              <p name="length">4<\p>
>              <p name="thickness">.5</p>
>              <p name="color">yellow</p>
>        </Object>
>    </Things>
>  
>     If I want to retrieve only the objects with class "Pens"

You would do:

   my @nodes = $document-> findnodes("//Object[@Class='Pens']");

or some variant on that.

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Senior Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/


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