Xml - Reaxml

[Bendy]

Carl,

I have a UNIX server, so I guess I am limited to PERL.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Again Thank you

Cheers

Ben

[Scriptage]

Hi Ben,

Sorry I haven't replied, I've been out of town for a few days. I'll get cracking on that program for you.

Just a couple more questions: What version of PERL do you have installed and what XML modules are installed on the server?

This information should be accessible from your control panel.

Kind Regards

Carl

[tommylogic]

wow.. that is VERY cool Carl.. I have never seen a dude willing to post free Perl code. I gotta say, that's just awesome... thank you so much!!

[Mack]

PERL? For crying out loud.

[Scriptage]

PERL? For crying out loud.

PERL has been a staple of the internet for many years; there is a cornucopia of modules written to parse XML in PERL, it is fast and reliable.

If you don't have anything positive to contribute then I suggest that you don't post anything at all.

This board seems full of ignorant people, quite frankly it bemuses me.

[Bendy]

Hi,

Installed PERL modules:

Installed Perl Modules
AnyDBM_File	Apache	Apache::Connection
Apache::Constants	Apache::Constants::Exports	Apache::Debug
Apache::ExtUtils	Apache::FakeRequest	Apache::File
Apache::Include	Apache::Leak	Apache::Log
Apache::ModuleConfig	Apache::MyConfig	Apache::Opcode
Apache::Options	Apache::PerlRun	Apache::PerlRunXS
Apache::PerlSections	Apache::RedirectLogFix	Apache::Registry
Apache::RegistryBB	Apache::RegistryLoader	Apache::RegistryNG
Apache::Resource	Apache::SIG	Apache::Server
Apache::SizeLimit	Apache::StatINC	Apache::Status
Apache::Symbol	Apache::Symdump	Apache::Table
Apache::URI	Apache::Util	Apache::httpd_conf
Apache::src	Apache::testold	Archive::Zip
Archive::Zip::BufferedFileHandle	Archive::Zip::MemberRead	Archive::Zip::MockFileHandle
Attribute::Handlers	AutoLoader	AutoSplit
B	B::Asmdata	B::Assembler
B::Bblock	B::Bytecode	B::C::Section
B::CC	B::Concise	B::Debug
B::Deparse	B::Disassembler::BytecodeStream	B::Lint
B::Showlex	B::Stackobj	B::Stash
B::Terse	B::Xref	Benchmark
Bundle::Apache	Bundle::DBI	ByteLoader
CGI	CGI::Carp	CGI::Cookie
CGI::Fast	CGI::Pretty	CGI::Push
CGI::Util	CPAN	CPAN::Mirrored::By
CPAN::Nox	Carp	Class::ISA
Class::Struct	Compress::Zlib	Config
Convert::BinHex	Convert::TNEF	Crypt::Makerand
Cwd	DB	DBD::DBM
DBD::File	DBD::Proxy	DBD::SQLite
DBI	DBI::Const::GetInfo::ANSI	DBI::Const::GetInfo::ODBC
DBI::Const::GetInfoReturn	DBI::Const::GetInfoType	DBI::DBD
DBI::DBD::Metadata	DBI::FAQ	DBI::Profile
DBI::ProfileData	DBI::ProfileDumper	DBI::ProfileDumper::Apache
DBI::ProxyServer	DBI::SQL::Nano	DBM_Filter
DBM_Filter::compress	DBM_Filter::encode	DBM_Filter::int32
DBM_Filter::null	DBM_Filter::utf8	DB_File::HASHINFO
Data::Dumper	Date::Format	Date::Language
Date::Language::Afar	Date::Language::Amharic	Date::Language::Austrian
Date::Language::Brazilian	Date::Language::Chinese_GB	Date::Language::Czech
Date::Language::Danish	Date::Language::Dutch	Date::Language::English
Date::Language::Finnish	Date::Language::French	Date::Language::Gedeo
Date::Language::German	Date::Language::Greek	Date::Language::Italian
Date::Language::Norwegian	Date::Language::Oromo	Date::Language::Sidama
Date::Language::Somali	Date::Language::Swedish	Date::Language::Tigrinya
Date::Language::TigrinyaEritrean	Date::Language::TigrinyaEthiopian	Date::Parse
Demo	Descriptions	Devel::DProf
Devel::PPPort	Devel::Peek	Devel::SelfStubber
Digest	Digest::MD5	Digest::SHA1
Digest::base	Digest::file	DirHandle
Dumpvalue	DynaLoader	Encode
Encode::Alias	Encode::Byte	Encode::CJKConstants
Encode::CN	Encode::CN::HZ	Encode::Config
Encode::EBCDIC	Encode::Encoder	Encode::Encoding
Encode::Guess	Encode::JP	Encode::JP::H2Z
Encode::JP::JIS7	Encode::KR	Encode::KR::2022_KR
Encode::MIME::Header	Encode::Symbol	Encode::TW
Encode::Unicode	Encode::Unicode::UTF7	English
Env	Errno	Exporter
Exporter::Heavy	ExtUtils::Command	ExtUtils::Command::MM
ExtUtils::Constant	ExtUtils::Embed	ExtUtils::Install
ExtUtils::Installed	ExtUtils::Liblist	ExtUtils::Liblist::Kid
ExtUtils::MM	ExtUtils::MM_AIX	ExtUtils::MM_Any
ExtUtils::MM_BeOS	ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin	ExtUtils::MM_DOS
ExtUtils::MM_MacOS	ExtUtils::MM_NW5	ExtUtils::MM_OS2
ExtUtils::MM_QNX	ExtUtils::MM_UWIN	ExtUtils::MM_Unix
ExtUtils::MM_VMS	ExtUtils::MM_VOS	ExtUtils::MM_Win32
ExtUtils::MM_Win95	ExtUtils::MY	ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Config	ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes	ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish
ExtUtils::Manifest	ExtUtils::Miniperl	ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap
ExtUtils::Mksymlists	ExtUtils::Packlist	ExtUtils::testlib
Fatal	Fcntl	File::Basename
File::CheckTree	File::Compare	File::Copy
File::DosGlob	File::Find	File::Glob
File::Path	File::Spec	File::Spec::Cygwin
File::Spec::Epoc	File::Spec::Functions	File::Spec::Mac
File::Spec::OS2	File::Spec::Unix	File::Spec::VMS
File::Spec::Win32	File::Temp	File::stat
FileCache	FileHandle	Filesys::Df
Filter::Util::Call	Filter::Util::Exec	Filter::cpp
Filter::decrypt	Filter::exec	Filter::sh
Filter::tee	FindBin	GDBM_File
Getopt::Long	Getopt::Std	HTML::Entities
HTML::Filter	HTML::HeadParser	HTML::LinkExtor
HTML::Parser	HTML::PullParser	HTML::Tagset
HTML::TokeParser	Hash::Util	I18N::Collate
I18N::LangTags	I18N::LangTags::Detect	I18N::LangTags::List
I18N::Langinfo	IO	IO::AtomicFile
IO::Dir	IO::File	IO::Handle
IO::InnerFile	IO::Lines	IO::Pipe
IO::Poll	IO::Scalar	IO::ScalarArray
IO::Seekable	IO::Select	IO::Socket
IO::Socket::INET	IO::Socket::SSL	IO::Socket::UNIX
IO::Stringy	IO::Wrap	IO::WrapTie
IPC::Msg	IPC::Open2	IPC::Open3
IPC::Semaphore	IPC::SysV	Image::Magick
List::Util	Locale::Constants	Locale::Country
Locale::Currency	Locale::Language	Locale::Maketext
Locale::Maketext::Guts	Locale::Maketext::GutsLoader	Locale::Script
MIME::Base64	MIME::Body	MIME::Decoder
MIME::Decoder::Base64	MIME::Decoder::BinHex	MIME::Decoder::Binary
MIME::Decoder::Gzip64	MIME::Decoder::NBit	MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint
MIME::Decoder::UU	MIME::Entity	MIME::Field::ConTraEnc
MIME::Field::ContDisp	MIME::Field::ContType	MIME::Field::ParamVal
MIME::Head	MIME::Parser	MIME::Parser::Filer
MIME::Parser::Reader	MIME::Parser::Results	MIME::QuotedPrint
MIME::Tools	MIME::WordDecoder	MIME::Words
Mail::Address	Mail::Cap	Mail::Field
Mail::Field::AddrList	Mail::Field::Date	Mail::Filter
Mail::Header	Mail::Internet	Mail::Mailer
Mail::Mailer::qmail	Mail::Mailer::rfc822	Mail::Mailer::sendmail
Mail::Mailer::smtp	Mail::Mailer::testfile	Mail::SPF::Query
Mail::Send	Mail::SpamAssassin	Mail::SpamAssassin::AICache
Mail::SpamAssassin::ArchiveIterator	Mail::SpamAssassin::AsyncLoop	Mail::SpamAssassin::AutoWhitelist
Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes	Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::CombineChi	Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::CombineNaiveBayes
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore	Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::DBM	Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::MySQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::PgSQL	Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SDBM	Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::SQL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Client	Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf	Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::LDAP
Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::Parser	Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf::SQL	Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants
Mail::SpamAssassin::DBBasedAddrList	Mail::SpamAssassin::Dns	Mail::SpamAssassin::DnsResolver
Mail::SpamAssassin::EvalTests	Mail::SpamAssassin::HTML	Mail::SpamAssassin::Locales
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker	Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::Flock	Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::UnixNFSSafe
Mail::SpamAssassin::Locker::Win32	Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger	Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::File
Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::Stderr	Mail::SpamAssassin::Logger::Syslog	Mail::SpamAssassin::MailingList
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message	Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata	Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata::Received
Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node	Mail::SpamAssassin::NetSet	Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgLearner
Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus	Mail::SpamAssassin::PersistentAddrList	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ASN	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AWL	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AccessDB
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AntiVirus	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AutoLearnThreshold	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Bayes
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::BodyEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::BodyRuleBaseExtractor	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DKIM	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DNSEval
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DomainKeys	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::HTMLEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::HTTPSMismatch
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::HeaderEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ImageInfo
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::OneLineBodyRuleType
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Pyzor	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Rule2XSBody
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SpamCop
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::TextCat	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDetail	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::VBounce
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::WLBLEval	Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::WhiteListSubject	Mail::SpamAssassin::PluginHandler
Mail::SpamAssassin::Reporter	Mail::SpamAssassin::SQLBasedAddrList	Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamdForkScaling
Mail::SpamAssassin::SubProcBackChannel	Mail::SpamAssassin::Timeout	Mail::SpamAssassin::Util
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::DependencyInfo	Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::Progress	Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::RegistrarBoundaries
Mail::SpamAssassin::Util::TieOneStringHash	Mail::Util	Math::BigFloat
Math::BigFloat::Trace	Math::BigInt	Math::BigInt::Calc
Math::BigInt::CalcEmu	Math::BigInt::Trace	Math::BigRat
Math::Complex	Math::Trig	Memoize
Memoize::AnyDBM_File	Memoize::Expire	Memoize::ExpireFile
Memoize::ExpireTest	Memoize::NDBM_File	Memoize::SDBM_File
Memoize::Storable	Module::Build	Module::Build::Base
Module::Build::Compat	Module::Build::Config	Module::Build::ConfigData
Module::Build::Cookbook	Module::Build::ModuleInfo	Module::Build::Notes
Module::Build::PPMMaker	Module::Build::Platform::Amiga	Module::Build::Platform::Default
Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC	Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX	Module::Build::Platform::MacOS
Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS	Module::Build::Platform::Unix	Module::Build::Platform::VMS
Module::Build::Platform::VOS	Module::Build::Platform::Windows	Module::Build::Platform::aix
Module::Build::Platform::cygwin	Module::Build::Platform::darwin	Module::Build::Platform::os2
Module::Build::PodParser	Module::Build::Version	Module::Build::YAML
MyClass	NEXT	Net::CIDR
Net::CIDR::Lite	Net::Cmd	Net::Config
Net::DNS	Net::DNS::Header	Net::DNS::Nameserver
Net::DNS::Packet	Net::DNS::Question	Net::DNS::RR
Net::DNS::RR::A	Net::DNS::RR::AAAA	Net::DNS::RR::AFSDB
Net::DNS::RR::CERT	Net::DNS::RR::CNAME	Net::DNS::RR::DNAME
Net::DNS::RR::EID	Net::DNS::RR::HINFO	Net::DNS::RR::IPSECKEY
Net::DNS::RR::ISDN	Net::DNS::RR::LOC	Net::DNS::RR::MB
Net::DNS::RR::MG	Net::DNS::RR::MINFO	Net::DNS::RR::MR
Net::DNS::RR::MX	Net::DNS::RR::NAPTR	Net::DNS::RR::NIMLOC
Net::DNS::RR::NS	Net::DNS::RR::NSAP	Net::DNS::RR::NULL
Net::DNS::RR::OPT	Net::DNS::RR::PTR	Net::DNS::RR::PX
Net::DNS::RR::RP	Net::DNS::RR::RT	Net::DNS::RR::SOA
Net::DNS::RR::SPF	Net::DNS::RR::SRV	Net::DNS::RR::SSHFP
Net::DNS::RR::TKEY	Net::DNS::RR::TSIG	Net::DNS::RR::TXT
Net::DNS::RR::Unknown	Net::DNS::RR::X25	Net::DNS::Resolver
Net::DNS::Resolver::Base	Net::DNS::Resolver::Cygwin	Net::DNS::Resolver::Recurse
Net::DNS::Resolver::UNIX	Net::DNS::Resolver::Win32	Net::DNS::Update
Net::Domain	Net::FTP	Net::FTP::A
Net::FTP::E	Net::FTP::I	Net::FTP::L
Net::FTP::dataconn	Net::IP	Net::NNTP
Net::Netrc	Net::POP3	Net::Ping
Net::SMTP	Net::SSLeay	Net::SSLeay::Handle
Net::Time	Net::hostent	Net::netent
Net::protoent	Net::servent	Newt
O	Opcode	OpenIPMI
POSIX	PerlIO	PerlIO::encoding
PerlIO::scalar	PerlIO::via	PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint
Pod::Checker	Pod::Find	Pod::Functions
Pod::Html	Pod::InputObjects	Pod::LaTeX
Pod::Man	Pod::ParseLink	Pod::ParseUtils
Pod::Parser	Pod::Perldoc	Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo
Pod::Perldoc::GetOptsOO	Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker	Pod::Perldoc::ToMan
Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff	Pod::Perldoc::ToPod	Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf
Pod::Perldoc::ToText	Pod::Perldoc::ToTk	Pod::Perldoc::ToXml
Pod::PlainText	Pod::Plainer	Pod::Select
Pod::Text	Pod::Text::Color	Pod::Text::Overstrike
Pod::Text::Termcap	Pod::Usage	SDBM_File
Safe	Scalar::Util	Search::Dict
SelectSaver	SelfLoader	Shell
Socket	Storable	Switch
Symbol	Sys::Hostname	Sys::Hostname::Long
Sys::Syslog	Term::ANSIColor	Term::Cap
Term::Complete	Term::ReadLine::Stub	Test
Test::Builder	Test::Harness	Test::Harness::Assert
Test::Harness::Iterator	Test::Harness::Straps	Test::More
Test::Simple	Text::Abbrev	Text::Balanced
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Text::Wrap	Thread	Thread::Queue
Thread::Semaphore	Tie::Array	Tie::File
Tie::Handle	Tie::Hash	Tie::Memoize
Tie::RefHash	Tie::Scalar	Tie::SubstrHash
Time::HiRes	Time::Local	Time::Zone
Time::gmtime	Time::localtime	Time::tm
UNIVERSAL	URI	URI::Escape
URI::Heuristic	URI::QueryParam	URI::Split
URI::URL	URI::WithBase	URI::_foreign
URI::_generic	URI::_ldap	URI::_login
URI::_query	URI::_segment	URI::_server
URI::_userpass	URI::data	URI::file
URI::file::Base	URI::file::FAT	URI::file::Mac
URI::file::OS2	URI::file::QNX	URI::file::Unix
URI::file::Win32	URI::ftp	URI::gopher
URI::http	URI::https	URI::ldap
URI::ldapi	URI::ldaps	URI::mailto
URI::mms	URI::news	URI::nntp
URI::pop	URI::rlogin	URI::rsync
URI::rtsp	URI::rtspu	URI::sip
URI::sips	URI::snews	URI::ssh
URI::telnet	URI::tn3270	URI::urn
URI::urn::isbn	URI::urn::oid	Unicode::Collate
Unicode::Normalize	Unicode::UCD	User::grent
User::pwent	XS::APItest	XS::Typemap
XSLoader	attributes	attrs
autouse	base	bigint
bignum	bigrat	blib
bytes	charnames	constant
diagnostics	encoding	fields
filetest	if	integer
less	lib	locale
mod_perl	open	ops
overload	re	sigtrap
sort	strict	subs
threads	threads::shared	utf8
vars	vmsish	warnings
warnings::register

How do I find out what version of PERL is running

Cheers an Thanks

Ben

[LeadMagnet]

Honestly i never would have even considered PERL. I never see it in use anywhere.
Is there some reason why you'd use PERL over something like PHP which is installed pretty much as standard on every webserver i've ever seen, has a huge range of free scripts and great documentation, including xml support, is a very very easy language to learn and (in my experience) has a much wider user base online that can help with it.

If you already know PERL and not PHP, then fine. Just wondering if PERL has any actual advantages in this situation.

[tommylogic]

PERL allows you to write standalone applications that build the pages as they are requested. PHP is requested from within the existing page. This creates limitations to PHP within itself.

[LeadMagnet]

Explain pls.

[tommylogic]

You could write a single Perl app that would otherwise require hundreds of PHP pages to do the same thing, in example.