& XSLT Mesdaq, Ali wrote:
>  Actually what I ended up doing and it looks like its working perfectly
>  so far is.
>  
>  In my loop of the nodes I have this at the end.
>  
>  $root->removeChild($_);
>  $tree->toFile($xmlfile);

Yep, that should work, even if it isn't "ideal".
Since you were concerned about crashes, you might
mv the $xmlfile to $xmlfile.bak or something before
writing.  That way, you'd end up with something usable
in any case.

>  $xmlfile is the file that I am reading from. This means that during my
>  loop I don't reload the file. I just read the tree once but I keep
>  saving the newer version back to disk so that if I ever do have to
>  reload the tree it will be the updated version.


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