This may very well be the wrong way to approach this but...
I have an XML Document which is a template for a job that will be run. Depending on the processing certain elements need to be taken, cloned and added back into the document with attributes altered.
I am using XML::Mini and thought I should be able to grab the element - copy it, alter it and add it back into the XML document.
However when I try this approch I end up with multiple elements all with the same value because the elements contain HashRefs - which obviously when modified all point to the same Hash.
I originally took the approach of generating the XML on the fly with subroutines which created the element. But doing it this way defeats my purpose of having the structure of the job defined within the XML. Plus it duplicates the information - being already defined in the XML and then programatically created in the code
. So I came to the conclusion that I needed to clone the element object - found the Clone module. And it works. :-)
Now I am thinking - is this the right way to approach this problem?
Anyone have any better suggestions about how to take a template XML document and transform it based on variables supplied at runtime? XSLT perhaps (i've been trying to avoid the learning curve for this)? Simon