& XSLT I created an example using the Chilkat XML parser (freeware) here:
http://www.example-code.com/perl/perl-xml-iterate-delete.asp

The code to iterate and delete looks like this:

# Load the XML and iterate/delete:
$xml2 = new chilkat::CkXml();
$xml2-> LoadXmlFile("colors.xml");

while ($xml2-> get_NumChildren() > 0)
{
         $child = $xml2-> GetChild(0);
         print $child-> content . "\n";
         $child-> RemoveFromTree();
}

I'll be happy to more examples upon request (so long as they
are somewhat generic to be of use to others).

Best Regards,
Matt Fausey
Chilkat Software, Inc.

At 11:16 AM 11/13/2006, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:

> I am using xml to keep a list of items I need to loop through. But I
> would like to delete the items as I am looping through. So in case if
> the system crashes and I boot back up I know where to continue from. So
> now a few questions I have regarding that.
> 
> One is what do I use to delete the node? I was looking through the
> documentation for libxml on cpan and I see "replaceNode" in the
> XML::LibXML::Node library but it seems like it keeps a copy around which
> seems to be a little inefficient. I am pretty sure there is probably a
> better function for this but I couldn't find it and I would imagine it
> would be in the XML::LibXML::Node library.
> 
> Second question is about the reliability of either the replaceNode call
> or whatever the better function call is. How reliable is that call? If I
> call that is there a chance the document could be in a non-valid state?
> Or will that call ensure that it only deletes that node and not delete
> it partially?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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