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Re: Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer

by PodMaster (Abbot)
on Dec 07, 2003 at 17:29 UTC ( [id://312948]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer

This is a tad friendlier to the server
use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple 'get'; use XML::Simple; use CPAN; my $xml = XMLin( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladvent.rdf' ) ); my $item = shift @{ $xml->{channel}{item} }; CPAN::Shell->install($1) if $item->{title} =~ /-\s(\S+)$/;
update: and here is the friendliest version possible
use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple 'get'; use XML::Simple; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install( XMLin( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladventone.rdf' ) ) ->{channel}{item}{title} );

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Re^2: Perl Advent Calendar Daily Installer
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 08, 2003 at 12:54 UTC
    And for those of us who like to avoid the expat-based modules and prefer libxml2:
    use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple 'get'; use XML::LibXML; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install( XML::LibXML ->new() ->parse_string( get( 'http://perladvent.org/perladventone.rdf' + ) ) ->findvalue( '/rss/channel/item/title' ) );
    Actually for the RDF feed currently provided you can just use //title as the XPath expression.

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