Perl- Access XML Document Online

[Holmes89]

I'm kind of new to Perl and had a question regarding accessing an online file. If I want to access an XML sheet how to I access it with Perl. I've tried downloading the file with wget but it won't save. So any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[myrtle1908]

Have a look at the LWP modules. A very basic example of how to grab something off of the web follows:-

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'http://somewhere.com/somefile.xml';
my $xml = get($url);
die "Can't connect to $url" unless defined $xml;

print $xml;

If you need to parse the XML then there are a great many parsers available for Perl. Search around.

[KyleBrandt]

I like XML::Simple, but you are not going to have an easy time with this until you are comfortable with references in Perl. If you don't know references well look at : http://perldoc.perl.org/perlref.html . These can be a little tricky if you have never worked with something like pointers in c , so be patient and read slow.