How to add one more node information to xml file - perl

Question

I written one script that create one xml file from multiple files,I written script like this.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
use Carp;
use File::Find;
use File::Spec::Functions qw( canonpath );
use XML::LibXML::Reader;
use Digest::MD5 'md5';
if ( #ARGV == 0 ) {
push #ARGV, "c:/main/work";
warn "Using default path $ARGV[0]\n Usage: $0 path ...\n";
}
open( my $allxml, '>', "all_xml_contents.combined.xml" )
or die "can't open output xml file for writing: $!\n";
print $allxml '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>',
"\n<Shiporder xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">\n";
my %shipto_md5;
find(
sub {
return unless ( /(_stc\.xml)$/ and -f );
extract_information();
return;
},
#ARGV
);
print $allxml "</Shiporder>\n";
sub extract_information {
my $path = $_;
if ( my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( location => $path )) {
while ( $reader->nextElement( 'data' )) {
my $elem = $reader->readOuterXml();
my $md5 = md5( $elem );
print $allxml $reader->readOuterXml() unless ( $shipto_md5{$md5}++ );
}
}
return;
}
from above script I am extracting data node information from all xml files and stored in a new xml file . but I have one more node starts with "details", I need to extract that information and I need to add that information also to the file, I tried like this
$reader->nextElement( 'details' );
my $information = $reader->readOuterXml();
I added this in while loop but how can I assign or print this data into same file($all xml). Please help me with this problem.
After your suggestion I tried like this, It gives error
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
use Carp;
use File::Find;
use File::Spec::Functions qw( canonpath );
use XML::LibXML::Reader;
if ( #ARGV == 0 ) {
push #ARGV, "V:/main/work";
warn "Using default path $ARGV[0]\n Usage: $0 path ...\n";
}
my $libXML = new XML::LibXML;
my $outputDom = $libXML->parse_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
>','<Shiporder xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">');
my $shiporder = $outputDom->documentElement;
find(
sub {
return unless ( /(_stc\.xml)$/ and -f );
extract_information();
return;
},
#ARGV
);
sub extract_information {
my $path = $_;
if(my #inputDom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(location => $path)){
$inputDom->findnodes('//data || //deatils');
foreach (#$inputDom) {
$shiporder->appendChild($_->parentNode->cloneNode(1));
}
$outputDom->toFile("allfiles.xml");
}
}
but it gives like " '\n\n:1: Parser error:Strat tag expected,'<' not found " Can you help me with script because I am very new to perl.

Answer 1

You would do a lot better if you used what XML::LibXML and related modules gives you, it is a very large and comprehensive module and allows you to do a lot in few lines.
You can use the parser to start a new dom document using parse_string, storing the root node using documentElement. From there, use parse_file to load up each of your input files, then findnodes on the input files to extract the nodes you want to clone. Then append a clone of your input nodes to the output document, and finally use the toFile method to write out your output.
Something like:
my $libXML = new XML::LibXML;
my $outputDom = $libXML->parse_string('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>',
'\n<Shiporder xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">\n');
my $shiporder = $outputDom->documentElement;
...
my $inputDom = $libXML->parse_file(some_file_name);
$inputDom->findnodes('//data || //details'); # use a more suitable xpath
foreach (#$inputDom) {
$shipOrder->appendChild($_->parentNode->cloneNode(1)); # if you want parent too...
}
...
$outputDom->toFile(some_output_file);
}
You will have to allow for namespaces and whatnot, but this gives one approach to start with.