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Will XML::Simple work with keys, strings, integers, and dates? Wes Barris 03-21-2005
Posted by Wes Barris on March 21, 2005, 10:43 am
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Hi,

I am trying to use XML::Simple to parse an xml file. However, the xml file
that I am trying to parse is not in the same format as any of the XML::Simple
examples that I have seen. In all of the examples I have seen, the xml tags
are specific to their contents. In my xml file, the tag names are generic.
Here is a short sample of the xml that I am trying to parse:

<dict>
<key>35</key>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>35</integer>
<key>Name</key><string>Earache My Eye (Full Version)</string>
<key>Artist</key><string>Alice Bowie</string>
<key>Genre</key><string>Specialty Rock</string>
<key>Kind</key><string>MPEG audio file</string>
<key>Size</key><integer>6459519</integer>
<key>Total Time</key><integer>322951</integer>
<key>Date Modified</key><date>2005-02-16T12:03:00Z</date>
<key>Date Added</key><date>2005-02-16T11:59:14Z</date>
<key>Bit Rate</key><integer>160</integer>
<key>Sample Rate</key><integer>44100</integer>
<key>Track Type</key><string>File</string>

<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/M:/1970s/Alice%20Bowie%20-%20Earache%20My%20Eye.mp3/</string>
<key>File Folder Count</key><integer>2</integer>
<key>Library Folder Count</key><integer>1</integer>
</dict>
<key>36</key>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>36</integer>
<key>Name</key><string>Earache My Eye</string>
<key>Artist</key><string>Cheech &#38; Chong</string>
<key>Genre</key><string>Specialty Rock</string>
<key>Kind</key><string>MPEG audio file</string>
<key>Size</key><integer>1875968</integer>
<key>Total Time</key><integer>156204</integer>
<key>Date Modified</key><date>2005-02-16T12:03:21Z</date>
<key>Date Added</key><date>2005-02-16T11:59:15Z</date>
<key>Bit Rate</key><integer>96</integer>
<key>Sample Rate</key><integer>32000</integer>
<key>Track Type</key><string>File</string>

<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/M:/1970s/Cheech%20&#38;%20Chong%20-%20Earache%20My%20Eye.mp3/</string>
<key>File Folder Count</key><integer>2</integer>
<key>Library Folder Count</key><integer>1</integer>
</dict>

I would like to be able to extract things like the "Name", "Artist", and
"Location" but I don't understand how to associate one of the elements of
the key array with one of the elements of the resulting string array.
--
Wes Barris


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