Xml Data:
<libraries>
<group name="stdcell_globalsubtypes">
<cell type="a" optional="1">
<cell type="b" optional="1">
<cell type="c" optional="1" >
<cell type="d" optional="1" >
<cell type="e" optional="1"/>
</cell>
</cell>
</cell>
</cell>
</group>
How can I access all the children and grandchildren nodes of group name = "stdcell_globalsubtypes" without having to parse through each child node using getChildrenByTagName("cell").
I need to parse this xml data and make a hash out of it as %hash = ('1'=>a,'2'=>b,'3'=>c,'4'=>d,'5'=>e)
Is there any API to get all the child nodes and sub child nodes? If not, How can I do it recursively?
Thanks in advance :)
I'm not XML expert... There's probably a more efficient way to solve this, but one way to do it is with a recursive function
use strict;
use warnings 'FATAL', 'all';
use XML::LibXML;
sub extract_cell_types {
my $node = shift;
my @return_array;
my @cells = $node->getChildrenByTagName("cell");
for my $cell (@cells) {
my $type = $cell->getAttribute("type");
push @return_array, $type;
if ($cell->hasChildNodes) {
push @return_array, extract_cell_types($cell);
}
}
return @return_array;
}
my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => <<'END');
<doc>
<group name="stdcell_globalsubtypes">
<cell type="a" optional="1">
<cell type="b" optional="1">
<cell type="c" optional="1" >
<cell type="d" optional="1" >
<cell type="e" optional="1"/>
</cell>
</cell>
</cell>
</cell>
</group>
</doc>
END
my $doce = $doc->getDocumentElement;
my @types;
my @groups = $doce->getChildrenByTagName("group");
for my $gn (@groups) {
if ($gn->getAttribute("name") eq "stdcell_globalsubtypes") {
push @types, extract_cell_types($gn);
}
}
print join(', ', @types) . "\n";