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I'm wondering about your example.
Your code snipit:
<part name="foo">
   <part name="bar"/>
   <part name="bar2"/>
</part>

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is not valid xml. I know its psuedo-code, but it makes the sol'n confusing. Perhaps you meant:
<section name="foo">
   <subsection name="bar">
   <subsection name="baz">
</section>

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Or something like that? Then you want
my $foo = new section( name => "foo" ;
$foo->addSubsection( "bar" );
$foo->addSubsection( "baz" );
$foo->startSystem;

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???

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RE: RE: XML::Parser
by ivey (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2000 at 23:43 UTC
    well...no. the difference is that i don't want to define a name for each level...there may be many levels. so, i might have 
    <section name="top">
  <section name="chap1"/>
  <section name="chap2">
    <section name="sub1"/>
  </section>
  <section name="chap3"/>
  <section name="chap4">
    <section name="sub2">
      <section name="table1"/>
    </section>
  </section>
</section>

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    my problem is, in the Handlers definition, how keep a relationship between my "current root section" (ie, the one to which i will be adding the next subsection) and the xml level?

    --
    michael d. ivey, ivey@gweezlebur.com

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      You can keep a stack of the current level where you are in the XML file. When you get a start tag, push the tag onto the stack; when you get to the end of that tag, pop the tag off the stack. You can use this to define a tree structure of sorts.

      Another option would be to use the "Tree" Style of XML::Parser. Read the docs for that.

      A final option, and a good one, is to use XML::Simple, which may work for you: 

          use XML::Simple;
    XMLin("foo.xml");

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      It loads the data into a tree structure, which may or may not work exactly how you want it.

      Or (finally again) you could look into some of the other tree-processing XML modules, like XML::DOM and XML::Twig. They may be overkill for your purposes, though.

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[d/l]
      I didn't know you could do that. I've not done much with XML.
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