Editing an XML file

[Zippeh]

Hi there,

What's the easiest way for me to edit a couple of attribute values of an XML file using Perl?

Thanks!

 

[ishnid]

You could use XML::Simple to read in the file, change the value and then save it again.

 

[stevexff]

XML::Simple (like its name implies) isn't too smart when differentiating between attributes and nested tags. Normally you'd use it to read an XML config file into a perl data structure, where this doesn't matter much. But you might find that what gets written out might not look quite the same as what was read in. But for simple XML structures it should work OK. Give it a try and see.

Steve

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