At 12:22 25/7/00 +0100, "Sabrina Ahmed" <sabrina@[...].uk> 
wrote:
>    Hi all,   I am trying to create simple perl files to parse my  xml
> documents and am using XML::Parser. However, in the scripts i have written,
>  i keep getting the same error so i am wondering if i am doing something 
> fundamentally wrong. My scripts are just to parse an xml file and give the
> info  as html. i am doing a web-based project to describe information about
> images and  basically want the perl script to parse the xml document and
> show the relevent  information in a web environment. However, even my test
> scripts aren't working.  the error i get is:   Global symbol "$p1" requires
> explicit package name  at ./xmltest.pl line 6.
> Execution of ./xmltest.pl aborted due to compilation  errors.

At this point in a question you should include the code so people have some
chance of being able to help you. Error messages out of context are rarely
useful. Don't worry. I am not trying to "make an example" of you, but this
seemed like a good opportunity to suggest this advice to question-askers in
general. If you don't give enough context, people will ignore your problem.


In this case, you probably need to put:

  use vars '$p1';

at the top of your script.



Regards,


Ian