Re^3: Parsing XML with XML::Simple

The big issue is that if you have First Last <this@that.com> within your XML, you have bad XML. (It should be First Last <this@that.com>.) It is better to fix these files. I am not sure how you came into this, because XML::Simple usually escapes these things:

$ perl -MXML::Simple -e "print XMLout({ a => 'a <b>' })"
<opt a="a &lt;b&gt;" />
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It could be the version you're using. The example above used

$ which_pm XML::Simple
XML::Simple       2.13    c:/tools/apache/Perl/site/lib/XML/Simple.pm
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Re^4: Parsing XML with XML::Simple
by madbombX (Hermit) on Dec 18, 2006 at 01:22 UTC

2.14

Re^5: Parsing XML with XML::Simple

by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 18, 2006 at 01:30 UTC

So you are suggesting that the XML::Simple file is post-processed in some fashion to insert extra information? The fix in that case is to pre-process the file at the other end to remove said extra information. Alternatively the code using XML::Simple to generate the file might be modified to insert the extra information in a compliant fashion. At this point it depends rather on your data flow and processes.

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Re^5: Parsing XML with XML::Simple

by Jenda (Abbot) on Dec 18, 2006 at 21:12 UTC

If you need the CSV info accessible to the programs you need to enclose the content in <[CDATA[...]]> to make sure the <, > and & characters do not break the XML, if you don't it would be best to use comments:

<!-- CVS
$Id: File_Find.pl,v 1.1 2006-12-17 19:25:03 eric Exp $
This That <this@that.com>
Desc: Test file
-->
<root>
...
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