[Israel.pm] XML processing problem

[Offer Kaye]

>
> Hello,
>
> Please consider the following code snippet:
>
> 	use XML::Twig;
>
> 	my $twig=XML::Twig->new(
> 		twig_roots => {
> 			item => \&handle_item
> 		},
> 		twig_print_outside_roots => 0,
> 		keep_encoding =>1,
> 	);
> 	$twig->parsefile( 'myfile.xml' );
> 	$twig->flush; # flush the end of the document
>
> 	sub handle_item {
> 		my( $twig, $item)= @_;
> 		# do something with $item
> 	}
>
>
> I was surprised to see that this code prints *some* of my
> XML file, although
> 	twig_print_outside_roots => 0
>
> Moreover, it seems that all the file is being processed and
> only then output (the output I don't even want) is being
> printed to the standard output. This is although this method
> should be processing the XML one 'item' at a time without
> building the twig of the whole xml file.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
>
> --
> Shlomo Yona


You're using "twig_roots" together with "twig_print_outside_roots => 0".
According to the documentation:

       The twig_roots mode builds only the required sub-trees from the docu-
       ment Anything outside of the twig roots will just be ignored

and also:

           twig_print_outside_roots
               To be used in conjunction with the twig_roots argument. When
               set to a true value this will print the document outside of
the
               twig_roots elements.

So because you are setting twig_print_outside_roots to false it tells
XML::Twig to process only a part of your document. Try setting it to "1"...

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Offer Kaye